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“Collaborating with Marriott Hotels represents a new step forward in programming on this platform,” said Naritiv CEO Daniel Altmann. “Users show their lives and tell their stories through Snapchat in a way social media did in its earlier days: candidly and spontaneously, yet serially. Each day tells a story. Snapchat thoroughly captures users’ attention for that moment they look at the Snaps and then capture and share them. People follow and connect with creators we work with in a special way, and we’re excited for them to be engaging Marriott’s audience in a new way as well.”
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“Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” has about a dozen different ideas of what it wants to do and be, but one thing is for certain: the show is, above all, spooky as hell.
And yes, I do mean “as hell” literally. The new Netflix series drags its heroine to the underworld and back, wreaking havoc with blunt and gruesome heft, reminding us at every given turn that this “Sabrina” is not at all like the peppy ABC comedy that tweens once spent their Fridays with. Based on a recent twist of a Archie comic series by creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” takes obvious delight in perverting every ounce of its once wholesome source material.
Just about the only thing this Sabrina (played with a determined spark by “Mad Men’s” Kiernan Shipka) shares with her original incarnation are her aunts Hilda (Lucy Davis) and Zelda (Miranda Otto), a wary black cat, and a stubbornness to balance being half-mortal and half-witch that ends in disaster more often than not. But this Sabrina’s version of disaster is, as aforementioned, a literal hellscape. Her coven, The Church of Night, is a strict sect of devil worshippers that makes human sacrifices, occasionally eats them, and wants nothing more than for Sabrina to renounce her mortal life and sign herself over to The Dark Lord (aka Satan).
Though its sister show “Riverdale” over on the CW has its fair share of dark twists, “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina” sets its town of Greendale apart by creating a relentlessly eerie atmosphere fit for a demon and his devoted followers. The series is replete with Gothic haunted houses overflowing with Lisa Soper’s sinister, spellbinding production design. And even when Angus Strathie’s costumes can be a bit logistically confusing — the show chases a 1960’s aesthetic, but is seemingly set near present day — they are undeniably sharp and distinctive. No one shot of “Sabrina” quite looks like any other show on TV, and that in and of itself as an accomplishment. (Though it should be said that an exception to this rule occurs when the show tries to emphasize its capital s Spookiness by blurring out the edges of a scene, which often just has the effect of making the camera seem like it’s come unfocused.)
But a singular vibe isn’t enough to sustain a series for the long haul, and so “Sabrina” ends up throwing a whole lot at the walls to see what sticks. There are a few separate shows fighting for dominance throughout the ambitious 10-episode first season, a couple of which are much more successful than others.
The least successful is, despite the show and Sabrina’s best intentions, her mortal life. While her friends Roz (Jaz Sinclair) and Susie (Lachlan Watson) eventually get their own worthy storylines, they initially don’t get enough room to distinguish themselves in the middle of all the otherworldly chaos Sabrina is grappling with outside the halls of Baxter High. More problematic is that Sabrina’s relationship with poor, earnest Harvey Kinkle (Ross Lynch) is supposed to act as her one true anchor to the mortal world, but Shipka and Lynch are never convincing enough together to quite sell it.
The way Sabrina’s home life intersects with The Church of Night is the clearest, most obvious throughline of the series, and all the actors involved are so game that it’s compelling enough even when it starts to get messy. Davis not only brings her signature bright goofiness to the role of Hilda, but gets some truly lovely moments when exploring her character’s bittersweet dilemma of wanting to inspire good from within such a twisted system. As Zelda, Otto adopts an icy and imperial bearing that can border on harsh, but it’s hard to care when she embraces the show’s archness so thoroughly. (The same applies to Richard Coyle as Father Blackwood, the coven’s domineering and often hypocritical leader, and Michelle Gomez as a possessed teacher.) One of the show’s better surprises is Chance Perdomo as Ambrose Spellman, Sabrina’s housebound cousin who starts off as a rote dispenser of advice before settling into a groove all his own.
But the one aspect of “Sabrina” that deserves more time in this first season is the Academy of Unseen Arts. Overseen by Father Blackwood and unofficially ruled by a trio of smirking Weird Sisters (Tati Gabrielle, Abigail Cowen, and Adeline Rudolph), the Academy acts as a sort of deeply wicked, bizarro world Hogwarts. Sabrina is ostensibly supposed to learn the mechanics of how magic actually works there, but since she only spends random weekends there and becomes powerful anyway, the Academy ends up acting more as a convenient backdrop more than anything else. That’s a shame, since some of the show’s best moments — and in turn, Shipka’s — come when Sabrina is facing off against the Weird Sisters, making uneasy alliances with their leader Prudence (Gabrielle), and resisting the charms of intriguing warlock student Nick Scratch (Gavin Leatherwood).
For as interesting as some of the coven material is, it’s easy — and a little frustrating — to imagine the show “Sabrina” could’ve been if it had embraced the Academy. Many of the scenes that click fully into place involve some combination of Academy students, lore, and protocol that make it feel like such a promising, pitch-black “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” heir that it’s disappointing when the series pulls away.
The good news is that once the show pushes past its initial throat clearing, is alluring and compelling enough to discourage looking away — and that season 2, should it come to pass, practically demands that “Sabrina” as a show and character alike embrace the Academy. With a little more focus (both literally and figuratively), the series has as much potential as its heroine to become something great.
Drama, 60 minutes. Premieres Friday, October 26 on Netflix.
Cast: Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto, Lucy Davis, Richard Coyle, Chance Perdomo, Ross Lynch, Jaz Sinclair, Lachlan Watson, Tati Gabrielle, Adeline Rudolph, Abigail Cowen, Michelle Gomez.
Crew: Executive producers: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Greg Berlanti, Sarah Schechter, Jon Goldwater, and Lee Toland Krieger.
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Tati The Sentinel
Joined: Feb. 2002
Posted: July 05 2007, 14:47
Quote (TOBY @ July 05 2007, 05:53)
Still not that keen on 'Music of the Spheres' as a title. Just makes me think of Ian Brown's album.
For me,it's not a good name for a classical piece.Sounds too new agey to me
But let's wait and see what Mike has done...
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larstangmark
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Quote (Tubularman @ July 05 2007, 15:04)
Yes and "Light and Shade" was the least interesting title ever, wasn't it? It can go from bad to worse.
He could call it "music for balls" while still keeping to the message (or whatever it is).
But we shouldn't worry about titles. Naming an album "Platinum" wasn't a stroke of genius either. "Discovery" and "Earth Moving" are equally bland titles that makes of you think of just about anything (or nothing).
"There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste"
Mark E Smith
By and large album or track titles have never been Mike's strong point. His better ones are always the more abstract Ommadawn and Amarok worked really well. QE2 has to to the worst though, especially on the tail end of punk - talk about asking for it.
I think this may have been covered before but this is no doubt Mike's point of reference http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_the_spheres
I'm not sure what that has to do with Halloween but maybe that idea was changed too.
Sentinel101
I hope that MOTS follows the pattern of Amarok where a long time of disappointing albums was followed by an incredible creative outburst.
The Wikipedia article is very interesting. It seems that Mike returned to the form of a concept album with interconnected tracks. Did you notice the funny (or intentional) coincidence: "Musica universalis (lit. universal music, or music of the spheres)" and MOTS is release by Universal. Maybe a nod to his new record company :-)
HuanCry
I agree with TOBY re. the new album no longer to do with Halloween ...what with the Title being MOTS and Mike's statement at the end of Changeling :-
'...It's going to be hand-played and MATHEMATICAL ; it's going to be as complicated as I feel it needs to be.'
This surely leads to something rather challenging ( at least in part ) linked to the ideas of the mathematician Kepler ?
Quote (HuanCry @ July 05 2007, 16:54)
That sentence makes my knees tremble. Will it be mathematical as in 11/8? Please, please...
BTW Karl Jenkins is no stranger complicated music. Listen to his composition "Riff" from Soft Machine Six. Then come back and tell me what time signature that tune is (and no cheating looking on the net!).
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Regarding the title, I doubt it will change now. The fact that Universal have confirmed the title suggests to me that they're ready to begin promoting the album under that name. There could be a drastic u-turn of course, but I'd not be counting on it. Still, we'll see what happens.
Regarding the time it's taken to come together, do bear in mind it's an orchestral piece. Bringing 100 or so musicians into the studio and having them all play the parts at once takes a heck of a lot less time than playing all those parts yourself. All that said, Ommadawn really didn't take very long at all - Hergest Ridge was released in August 1974, and by October 1975, Ommadawn was on the shelves, and that not only Mike playing most of the parts himself, but him doing all that twice after the faulty tapes incident. So, I wouldn't say that the time it's taken to complete is any cause for concern. In fact, I can say from experience that sometimes the best ideas are the ones which come out quickly...it's when something has to be pulled out and laboured at that it turns out lacklustre.
I would also agree that we're most likely still looking at an autumn release date. We'll of course keep you informed.
The Hallowe'en link may be useful to the marketing people, and that suggests a tie in for the release date.
If anybody has heard David Byrne's The Forest they will appreciate how much individuality and creativity can be put into a classical (in the sense of orchestral and non-electronic) piece. I hope Mike has not forgotten his ability to think creatively and simply used the orchestra to 'play tunes'...he can still muck around with sound and ideas ... we'll see!
I reviewed The Forest here on Amazon... you can play excerpts too. If Mike's work touches this its a masterpiece!
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Quote (Korgscrew @ July 06 2007, 02:18)
In fact, I can say from experience that sometimes the best ideas are the ones which come out quickly...it's when something has to be pulled out and laboured at that it turns out lacklustre.
After Listening to "Kate Bush" and the long Laboured "Ariel" CD I cannt agree more.. Although i can imagine the concept relating to a 3 minute Pop Song more so.. Maybe Mike had a few Riffs kicking around in his head and its been easy to link it altogether this time ...
tubtattoo
www.hmv.co.uk are showing it for release 5 Nov as well... they even have it at nearly half price? Go figure!
I agree that the name of the album seems to fit with a lot Mike says in his book and to be honest as long as the music moves me it could be untitled as far as I was concerned.
To be honest I think albums that are produced quickly are sometimes better than ones that are agonised over for years. If you spend to long doing something you fall into the trap that Peter Gabriel falls into occasionally where your material starts to feel over considered.
As Korgscrew says classical albums can actually be recorded very quickly since in Mike's case all he's got to come up with is the music himself and not the performance (though I hope he's performing some of it) He can then concentrate and enjoy the mix of it all which, as some musicians and engineers will tell you, is where the real performance of a recorded piece comes together.
hairy old hippy
Quote (torbenyj @ July 05 2007, 08:03)
http://peyote.com/jonstef/spheres.htm
This Pythagoras article brings together Mike's interest in astronomy, music (obviously), but also mathematical music which Mike refers to in 'Changeling' especially in reference to Incantations and his hopes for music in the future.
It's almost as if Mike is picking up where he left off after punk and Branson took him off track during the recording of Incantations. Funny also that Incantations has astronomy conotations with the "Lunar and Diana" vocals and The Space Movie connection.
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Music of the Spheres remains me of Terry Oldfield..
It sounds like a new age album really..
quote: Anyway.. larstangmark.
I think Platinum is a great title
OK it's not that bad. It works with the cover. But it's very close to self-gratulatory if you're supposed think of platinum sales.
I would like to add that Mike also came upp with two of the greatest album titles ever; Hergest Ridge and Ommadawn. It makes you think where? and what?, and then it makes you want to listen to the record and like it.
Alan D
Quote (larstangmark @ July 06 2007, 10:44)
But it's very close to self-gratulatory if you're supposed think of platinum sales.
In all these years, that's never occurred to me. The combination of title and album sleeve made me think of something polished, shiny, metallic, light, mysterious, delicate and precious all at the same time - and that's pretty well the effect the music had on me too: conflicting images and ideas that nevertheless held together. Platinum was a good, expressive title, I think - and fittingly different to what had gone before.
All this talk of Music of the Spheres sounding 'New Age' seems strange to someone who as a child was devouring books on the history of astronomy and had never heard of the New Age movement. The concept is extremely ancient with all kinds of interesting resonances relating to music, harmony, astronomy, mathematics, philosophy and so on, and I'll be very interested indeed to see what Mike has made of it all.
Taurus Outcast
i think hes had a tremendous release of pressure with the autobiography, which was the most truthful and honest i've ever read, so im sure this is going to be from the heart and absolutely brilliant and something he really wants to do! it doesnt have to be like amarok or ommadawn, it just has to be like mike!
peace x
Let's hope that this album has got a proper marketing strategy to put Mike back again in the limelight as a musician!
This type of album ie "Classical" begs a Pre Release Concert where its played out in its entirety ... One of the best ways to get Publicity!! ie invite the Press down for preview.. Gives emm something to write about!!.. Plus all the MO and Jenkins
Fans will fill the venue to give a standing ovation no doubt..
As a 1 Off I cannt see a Down side unless the orchestra has a "off night".. As a Come on to buy the Album as well why not include a Free TB1 with it as well .. I think Moody Blues did that a few years back ie gave a freebie away with the new album.. Maybe Classic FM might get on to it as well ..Given a Nudge
Quote (Alan D @ July 06 2007, 06:00)
The origin in the title lies somewhere in between:
"I was very idealistic at the time of 'Tubular Bells'. I suppose you could say I had a vision of what I wanted to do, but it was a vision of security and warmth and safety because I felt so unsafe. Now I want to acheive clarity. I can only describe it in pictorial terms, you know, like the way every album I've ever had has had a blue cover on it.
"That's why I called it 'Platinum', partly as a joke - you know, 'Mike Oldfield goes platinum', but also because it's a lovely strange metal, heavy and bendy like lead. I really wanted to call it 'Airborne', but they wouldn't have it. They've always done things like that. They even wanted me to put vocals on 'Tubular Bells'.
"I feel nice and averagely neurotic like everyone else, now."
The full interview is here: http://tubular.net/articles/79_12.shtml
Another thing; If something "sounds new age" my worst fear isn't that Mike will dwell on new-age matters, but that it will sound like Yanni! I'm no stranger to new-age concepts, but I don't much like the CDs that they sell in shops with scented candles.
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Peterlicker, Vienna Waves Festival, 1 October 2011
Posted on October 22, 2011 by viennesewaltz
I guess I wasn’t really part of the Waves Festival’s target market (market being very much the operative word here), which probably explains why I found myself being riled by practically every aspect of this event. In the first place, its corporate logo-infested identity did a great job of concealing its unique selling point (gah, it’s catching): the bringing together of artists from all over Europe to the city that stands at the crossroads of eastern and western Europe. Plus, if pan-Europeanism was the key, it was depressing to see how narrow and constrained the programme was. The most important musics coming out of eastern Europe these days incorporate significant elements of improvisation and radical performance practice, but you’d be hard pressed to find any challenging sonics in the endless ranks of twee indie boys and pale, waiflike girls who dominated the schedule. Not to mention the crap organizational arrangements which made being a paying punter at this festival a very dispiriting experience.
For reasons best known to themselves, most reviewers of Saturday’s line-up made no mention at all of Peterlicker’s appearance on the romantically named Opel Corsa Stage, opting to write instead about the empty bombast of British Sea Power which followed. This is my small attempt to redress the balance. Peterlicker, of course, are the latest group to hit the reunion trail, a little-remembered Austrian outfit from the late 80s and early 90s who just happened to include in their line-up a young Peter Rehberg. A track recorded live at their first ever concert, in Vienna on 9 November 1989 (also the night the Berlin Wall came down, fact fans), surfaced last year on Neonbeats, a compilation of Austrian new wave and post-punk music on the Klanggalerie label. That compilation appearance not only got the members of the group talking again, it provided the impetus for them to produce a new album, Nicht, and to play live again.
For a group who hadn’t played together for over 20 years, Peterlicker certainly went about their business with an air of confident swagger. Standing shoulder to shoulder with Pita were Franz “Hergo” Hergovich on voice, Der Standard music critic Christian Schachinger on guitar and Gregor Weissegger on bass, who together produced a sound that was utterly crushing in its totality. Schachinger and Weissegger were like evil axe-wielding twins, the former’s monstrously dense riffs hovering like black clouds over the latter’s doomy, effects-damaged bass progressions. Every so often Schachinger would hold his guitar up and knee it in the groin, each blow reinforcing the impression of barely controlled violence emanating from the stage. The studied, outwardly calm Rehberg issued wave after wave of electronic venom from his laptop, while Hergovich was simply a star. Coming over like a cross between the abject self-abasement of Michael Gira and the assaultive malice of William Bennett, this tall, well-dressed figure threw himself trancelike around the stage while delivering himself of abstract, tormented vocals. Basically, Peterlicker were out to obliterate everything in their path, and did so without any hesitation.
For those who remain sceptical of the static, anodyne approach favoured by so many contemporary Noise musicians, Peterlicker offer a wholly convincing alternative, one predicated on immense physical engagement and collective presence. Welcome back, guys, and please try to stick around this time.
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Glen Hansard, Vienna Porgy & Bess, 28 September 2011
Two days after seeing The Thing at Porgy & Bess, I was back there for a solo concert by Irish singer-songwriter and main Frame Glen Hansard. (How many other people saw both gigs, I wonder? Not many, I’d venture to say.) As with the last time I saw Hansard with his other group The Swell Season, I’m still quite taken aback by how popular this man is. The gig having sold out two months ago, there were people outside the venue holding up hastily scrawled signs pleading for tickets, while inside, there was barely room to move both upstairs and downstairs (the lower level, unusually for Porgy & Bess, having been given over to standing punters). Normally I’m all in favour of a bit of up-close-and-personal by getting close to the stage, but on this occasion I was very happy indeed to take the more detached view from the balcony. Not only was downstairs uncomfortably cramped, I also spotted from my vantage point a bloke waving his arms around and dancing idiotically to practically every song. Knowing my luck, I’d have been stuck right next to this loser if I’d been downstairs.
Where was I? Oh yes, the music. Hansard is an exceptionally gifted singer-songwriter, one of the very few I’ve known who can take the standard “one man and his acoustic guitar” trope and fashion from it something that demands undivided attention and respect. The first song of the evening, though, was an acapella reading of “Spencer The Rover”, the traditional English folk song made famous by John Martyn – a beautiful rendition that held the entire audience in rapt silence. A warm smile flickered across Hansard’s face as he sang – there was no enforced jollity and no lumpen attempts at humour, just a twinkling acknowledgement of the innately communal experience of live performance. Hansard was clearly happy to be in Vienna, and made frequent reference to the fact that it had been ten years since he had first played here with his friend and fellow singer-songwriter, the late Mic Christopher.
As the evening went on, it was this sense of an affectionate, yet wholly serious conversation being conducted between performer and audience that came across in every note Hansard played and each syllable he sang. That intimacy was inscribed in the natural, easygoing banter between songs, in the heartfelt drama of Hansard’s lyrics, in the emotional strength of his voice and in the astonishing dexterity and power of his guitar playing. Indeed, that wrecked-looking instrument was the source of some of the evening’s most delicious surprises. Hansard made liberal use of loops and effects pedals throughout the performance, transforming acoustic into electric and compellingly broadening the form of his miniature symphonies. That said, two of the starkest moments came when Hansard sat down at the unamplified piano at the back of the stage and sang off-mike, and when he did the same thing on guitar while standing at the front of the stage.
The highlights, though, were the songs I’d hoped Hansard would play: his blissful reimagining of Van Morrison’s “Astral Weeks”, and the lovelorn triptych from Once – “Lies”, “Falling Slowly” and “When Your Mind’s Made Up” – songs which have been living gently in my head for years now, their broken beauty as compelling and eloquent as ever. A rousing take on Dylan’s “Forever Young” and he was gone, but the memories of this night will take a lot longer to shift.
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The Thing with Ken Vandermark, Vienna Porgy & Bess, 26 September 2011
Posted on October 9, 2011 by viennesewaltz
It was an absolute pleasure to see The Thing in the smart surroundings of one of my favourite live music venues in Vienna, Porgy & Bess. An ambitious piece of programming, for sure, and one that resulted in a fair few empty seats, but it was worth it just to see the way this remarkable group took control of the larger and more formal space with just as much fire and gusto as they did when I saw them at the Blue Tomato. As if that weren’t enough, they were joined for the second half by the ubiquitous Ken Vandermark, who added his unique swing and pulse to the controlled onslaught wrought by the core trio of Mats Gustafsson, Ingebrigt Håker Flaten and Paal Nilssen-Love.
The Thing present the listener with a delicious conundrum: where does the composed end and the improvised begin? Famously named after a Don Cherry tune, they seem to get a free pass from hipsters by virtue of what a fawning piece in The Quietus recently described as their “affinity with alternative rock”. On the contrary, what makes The Thing so precious and unique is the way they use composed sections as a springboard for wild, unapologetic free jazz.
Case in point: the opening number tonight, an old zydeco tune called “Call The Police” by Stephanie McDee. The original consists largely of an addictive accordion riff repeated ad infinitum. Gustafsson leapt on this riff with glee, transforming it into a juggernaut tenor sax statement while Nilssen-Love fired off intricate polyrhythmic beats and Håker Flaten flayed his double bass alive. Elsewhere in the same song, Gustafsson embarked on an extended circular breathing excursion, something I’d never heard him do before despite having seen him play many times. This utterly transfixing solo was a salutary reminder, as if one were needed, that behind Gustafsson’s high-energy attack there lurks a master of jazz technique.
Vandermark’s arrival after the break was the cue for both the grooviest and saddest of the evening’s moods. Effervescent as ever on tenor, the American’s command of the upper register was complemented perfectly by Gustafsson’s swooping baritone low end. Their ecstatic interplay only subsided when Vandermark turned to the clarinet and traced a slow, desolate duo passage with the momentarily becalmed Håker Flaten. Later, as Gustafsson took up the rarely heard fluteophone, Vandermark too was to deliver an engrossing section of circular breathing. As before, there were infectious riffs and melodies galore during this second half, which coalesced into tempestuous group improvisations. Surging restlessly in and out of songform, The Thing are embarked on a thrilling journey where the only certainty is that nothing can be predicted.
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Emeralds, Vienna Rhiz, 6 September 2011
Enjoyable, if frustratingly brief, evening of whizzy ambient electronica from this highly touted American trio. I’m no authority on Emeralds’ music, but the fact that their most recent LP Does It Look Like I’m Here? is released on Peter Rehberg’s Editions Mego label made them worthy of investigation by itself. Consisting of a guitarist and two keyboard boffins, the group proposed three long tracks, the first of which was a charming, somewhat pastoral excursion into prime early 70s Tangerine Dream territory. I was on a massive TD kick as a teenager, but haven’t listened to them for years. Hearing Emeralds issue those same, sensuously overlapping waves of analogue melody was like being lowered into a warm, bubbling bath.
After a while proceedings took on a darker, harder edge. Mark McGuire made skilful use of numerous effects pedals, rendering his guitar work oblique and tortuous. If the attention started to wander during this middle section, it was soon reined in by the final part of the set, an intense flurry of shimmering synth-driven beauty.
The only thing not to like was John Elliott’s ridiculous headbanging and fist-waving. Why does he do that?
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“ (Sheriff: What in tarnation you trying to do you Bird Brain!?) Just doing my duty, Sheriff! „
~ Trigger to the Sheriff of Nottingham after accidentally setting off his crossbow.
Trigger and Nutsy are supporting antagonists from Disney's 21st full-length animated feature film Robin Hood, which is based on the legendary heroic outlaw of the same name. They are the two dimwitted vultures who assist the Sheriff of Nottingham and Prince John. In the end, they have reformed by King Richard, unlike Sir Hiss however.
Nutsy is the one who wears the hood, while Trigger wears the helmet and carries the crossbow and quiver of arrows.
Trigger was voiced by the late George Lindsey, and Nutsy was voiced by the late Ken Curtis.
Trigger is first seen during Prince John's archery tournament. Trigger mans a pie sales booth, while Nutsy helps the Sheriff cheat during the tournament. During the following battle, Trigger attempts to fight using his crossbow, but the arrow ricochets and he is forced to duck to avoid it. He is then hit by a well-aimed pie courtesy of Maid Marian.
Later, Trigger accompanies the Sheriff as he arrests Friar Tuck. Trigger in particular assists by pulling down the hood of Friar Tuck, who is engaged in battle with the Sheriff. The Friar's view blocked, the Sheriff is able to chain up Friar Tuck with little trouble. When Robin Hood, disguised as a blind beggar, comes to get information, he and Nutsy are fooled. Despite Trigger's constant warnings to hush, Nutsy blabs a plan to capture Robin Hood by hanging Friar Tuck. Trigger grows suspicious of how much the "beggar" knows, but the Sheriff blows off his concerns.
Trigger is shown as (correctly) fearing a jailbreak, and alongside the Sheriff, is shown investigating a disturbance. While they believe it to only be Nutsy, it is actually a disguised Robin Hood. Trigger later attempts to raise the alarm, after hearing Robin Hood open the jail door, but is ignored by the annoyed Sheriff. Trigger is warned against further "false alarms", and is ordered to return to his patrol.
Trigger later hears a muffled sound and approaches the Sheriff to tell his suspicions, only to realize that the "Sheriff" is actually Little John in disguise (having subdued the Sheriff). He is immediately subdued by Little John so the prisoners can escape.
Trigger and Nutsy are seen at the end of the film, apparently reformed by King Richard. They are shown guarding the imprisoned Prince John, Sir Hiss, and the Sheriff. When the newlywed Robin Hood and Maid Marian pass by in their carriage, Nutsy orders Trigger to "present arms" which leads Trigger to accidentally fire his crossbow.
Nutsy is first seen during Prince John's archery tournament. His fellow vulture Trigger mans a pie salesbooth, while Nutsy helps the Sheriff cheat during the tournament. During the final shootout, Nutsy hides in the target, and moves the target to allow the Sheriff to get a bulls-eye.
Nutsy is later seen assisting the Sheriff in setting up the gallows. Nutsy abruptly decides to test the trap door while the Sheriff is standing on it, resulting in the Sheriff falling down and getting stuck. Robin Hood, disguised as a blind beggar, comes to get information on the recently imprisoned Friar Tuck. Nutsy and Trigger are fooled, and reveal that Friar Tuck is scheduled to be hanged the next dawn for treason. Nutsy accidentally blabs the plan behind the hanging; the proposed execution is actually a plot to capture Robin Hood, who would certainly attempt to come to his friend's rescue. According to the plan, Robin Hood would then be hanged alongside the Friar.
Afterwards, Nutsy assists the Sheriff in guarding the jail. Nutsy functions as a watchman, and annoys the Sheriff with his constant announcements. While on patrol, Nutsy is captured by Robin Hood and Little John. Robin Hood steals Nutsy's clothing, to use as a disguise in order to break into the jail.
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Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows
Posted on February 15, 2018 by tenox
(This is a guest post by Antoni Sawicki aka Tenox)
Since 2012 or so Microsoft is pushing concept of running Windows Server headless without GUI and administering everything through PowerShell. I remember sitting through countless TechEd / Ignite sessions year after year and all I could see were blue PowerShell command prompts everywhere. No more wizards and forms, MMC and GUI based administration is suddenly thing of a past. Just take a look at Server Core, WinPE, Nano, PS Remoting, Windows SSH server, Recovery Console and Emergency Management Services. Even System Center is a front end for PowerShell. Nowadays everything seems to be text mode.
This overall is good news and great improvement since previous generations of Windows, but what if you need to create or edit a PowerShell, CMD script or some config file?
Oooops, looks like you are screwed. Seems that Redmond forgot to include most crucial tool in sysadmin’s job – a simple text mode editor. WTF Microsoft?
So, are there any 3rd party alternatives? Yes, and there are and quite a lot of them! Unfortunately none are perfect and most are old and unmaintained. This article aims to be a grand tour of whatever is available out there.
Note that throughout the article I will be repeatedly referring to a “portable” editor, that for me means single .exe file that can be carried around on a USB pen drive or network share. I also cry a lot about 64-bit Windows builds because I work a lot in WinPE and other environments where syswow64 is not available.
First lets start with most obvious choices well known through intertubes. If you search for a Windows Console Editor VIM and Emacs will naturally pop up first.These editors don’t need any introduction or praising. I use VIM every day and Emacs every now and then. These two had ports to Windows for as long as I can remember and in terms of quality and stability definitely up top. The problem is that both are completely foreign and just plain unusable to a typical Windows user and learning curve is pretty steep. Also portability suffers a lot at least for Emacs. Both editors come with hundreds of supporting files and are massive in size. Emacs.exe binary is whopping 83 MB in size and the zip file contains two of them just in case. Whole unpacked folder is 400 MB.
Emacs on Windows Console
VIM is fortunately much much better you can extract single vim.exe binary from the package and use it without much complaints.
VIM on Windows Console
When talking about about VI and Emacs hard not to mention some more historical versions. Emacs’ little brother MicroEmacs has been available for Windows since earliest days. I’m not going to attempt to link to any particular one since there are so many flavors.
MicroEmacs
VIM little brother VI also comes in different shapes and forms. Lets take look at a few.
Elvis on Windows
XVI on Windows
Stevie is a very special case. Rumor has it, this editor played crucial role in development of Windows NT itself or has been used since earliest days of NT as part of the private SDK. If you could ever look at Windows source code I’d bet you could probably find it buried inside. Because it was ported by folks at Redmond the quality should be pretty good. Unfortunately README states “this is an incomplete VI that has not been fully tested. Use at your own risk.”. For a historical note according to Wikipedia, Stevie port to Amiga has been used by Bram Moolenaar as a base source code for VIM.
Stevie for Windows aka NT VI
One particularly interesting case is VI editor from Watcom compiler suite. It has very nice TUI known from MS-DOS editors, syntax highlighting and online help. One of nicest versions of VI available for Windows. Small portable and just all around handy editor. This is probably my main to go text editor when working on WinPE or Server Core. Unfortunately not very well known. I hope it can gain some popularity it deserves.
OpenWatcom VI Editor
Thanks to Federico Bianchi just learned that there is a BusbyBox port to Windows having both 32bit and 64bit builds, 100% portable as just a single exe file! Most importantly it contains a working vi editor that understands window resizing and Win32 paths. I’m going to be keeping this one around. Awesome job Busybox! As a last thought I wish they also included Nano.
BusyBox Win32 VI Editor
I don’t want this article to be all about VI and Emacs clones. Let this nice color menus be a segue to more native Windows / DOS editors at least departing from hardcore keystrokes and Unix.
For a change in theme lets look at SemWare TSE Pro, the editor that originally started as QEDIT for DOS and OS/2. It has most advanced features one could ever imagine for a text mode editor. Including resizable windows, hex editor, macros and spell checker. I really wish I could use it in everyday’s life. Unfortunately TSE has some drawbacks, it lacks portable version and install is little cumbersome. Currently no x64 build but the author is working on it. TSE is not free, the license is $45 but it allows to install on as many machines as you need.
SemWare TSE Pro
Next one up is Brief. It used to be very popular in it’s own time and sparked quite bit of following as there are numerous of editors being “brief style”. It’s a nice and small console based text editor. It comes in two versions basic (free) and professional (paid). The pro version supports splitting in to multiple windows regexp and unicode. Unfortunately it runs at $120 per user and there is no 64bit build or a portable edition.
There also is an open source clone of Brief called GRIEF. Flipping through the manual it has very impressive set of features including $120 windowing feature and macros. Unfortunately it’s rather unportable due to large amount of dll and other files. 64bit build could probably be made if someone wanted.
GRIEF free Brief Clone
As we talk about less costly options there is Kinesics Text Editor aka KIT. It’s more well known if you search on google, completely free and after installing you can find and a x64 binary file! This makes it somewhat portable and able to run in WinPE for instance. Until recently the editor did not have 64bit version so I did not have chance to use it much in practice but the TUI appears to have a well rounded easy to use (F1 or right mouse click brings menus). It does’t seem to have any advanced features but it’s very stable and actively maintained. And frankly this is what matters for editing on the console. It may actually be the right missing Windows console editor.
Kinesics aka KIT
Another one is Minimum Profit. It’s fully open source and it supports a lot of platforms in both windowing and text mode. It has a lot of interesting features such as syntax highlighting, spell checked and menus. It can’t be easily made portable as it needs a lot of files of it’s own scripting language. There is no Win64 build by default but one could probably make it with Mingw64. I also find that screen refresh is somewhat funky.
Minimum Profit
Lets look at somewhat well known FTE. It’s a very nice text editor available on many platforms such QNX, OS/2 and of course Windows. It has nice TUI, split windows, syntax highlighting, folding, bookmarks and tools for HTML authoring etc. Overall awesome editor falling short only to TSE. Support for NT console has been available since 1997. I have recently fixed couple of bugs and built a 64bit portable version.
FTE Editor
One could also not forget Borland Turbo C IDE. Apparently there is an open source clone of the IDE as a regular editor called SETEdit. It’s multi platform editor with MS-DOS style windows and menus. Syntax highlighting macros and all regular amenities. Looks like DOS version can play MP3 songs while you code. There is a native WinNT build made with BCPP. To run on Windows you install the DOS version then overwrite dos exe file win NT exe. The editor is absolutely awesome, unfortunately currently doesn’t work in a portable manner and there is no x64 binary. However as it’s open source it could be probably made.
SETEdit a Borland Turbo C IDE Clone
When talking about MS-DOS style windows, Norton Commander like file managers come to mind. There is one particular built specifically for Windows – FAR Manager. Written by author of WinRAR, originally shareware, but since 2007 it has been released under BSD license. FAR does come with a built in text editor hence it’s featured here. It’s actively supported and developed, and because it’s designed from ground up for Windows, it’s probably most stable and trustworthy of all applications in this post. I normally don’t use it that much, but I do keep a copy of it lying around when I need to do some more heavy lifting from Windows console. There is a 64bit binary by default but unfortunately FAR can be hardly made portable as it comes with 400 files.
FAR Manager Text Editor
When talking about Norton Commander clones lets not forget Midnight Commander, which does have an unofficial native Windows console build called mcwin32. Similar to FAR, MC has a very nice built-in text editor. MC overall seems far nicer than FAR but because it’s multi platform rather than WIndows specific and not officially supported I don’t trust it as much for day to day use.
GNU Midnight Commander
When on topic of Unix, lets talk about GNU Nano. In it’s native habitat, it’s very popular and stable editor making it a perfect choice for a text mode console. Unfortunately Windows port is lacking quite a lot, especially for things like resizing Window or handling file names. The official build looks like a fusion of cygwin, mingw, pdcurses and other horrible stuff. Version that comes with Mingw/MSYS is not portable and so far I failed in attempts to build a static windows binary by hand. Nano predecessor UW Pico unfortunately never did have console terminal Windows port. Authors of Pine decided to make it semi graphical application with it’s own window, menus and buttons. Sad story for both Pico and Nano. Hopefully one day someone will make a 100% native Windows port.
Another non-vi and non-emacs Unix editor with Windows console port is JED. Frankly I have not used JED that much in the past although I did play with it in the 90s. This is the original web page of Jed editor. It does seem to have menus and multi windows. Unfortunately doesn’t look like it can be easily made in to a portable image.
JED Win32 Port
Yet another more obscure editor is ED-NT which is DEC EDT clone. Unfortunately seems to be completely dead an unmaintained. Sources are still available through archive.org so perhaps it could be still looked after if someone wanted EDT editor on Windows.
ED-NT
When going through obscurities via archive.org one can also mention ZABED and more specifically Z95 which is a 32bit console version. I don’t know anything about the editor and I’m little too lazy to play with it extensively although pdf manual is available. Probably little too old and too obscure for every day use.
Perhaps even more obscure to a mere mortal is The Hessling Editor aka THE. It’s based on VM/CMS editor XEDIT. I did briefly use VM/CMS and XEDIT in early ’90 but I never liked it so much. THE comes in as a native Win32 binary. Not easily portable as it requires some additional files. Also no 64bit binary but source code is available.
THE aka The Hessling Editor
Thanks to Andreas Kohl I have learned about X2 Programmers Editor which also has NT console version. The editor seems very nice and has extensive help, syntax highlighting, etc. Unfortunately I have never used this editor before. Last version has been released in 2008 which is not loo long ago but sadly there has been no update since. I hope the author will continue to maintain it.
X2 Programmers Editor
Andreas also brought up Personal Editor, which comes as PE32 and PE64. Looks like really well maintained and stable editor designed and developed specifically for Windows. 64bit bit version is really cool however the editor doesn’t seem to be portable and $40 license will probably prevent me from using it professionally in environments where I would need it. Never the less looks like a very fine editor!
Another find is e3 editor. Pretty interesting stuff. It’s written in assembler and available on many operating systems including DOS and Windows. Looks like it’s still maintained as last version was released in 2016. It supports multiple modes, Wordstar, Emacs, Vi, Pico and Nedit by renaming or linking the main executable. It’s definitely portable as it doesn’t need any extra files and the exe is just 20KB (take that emacs!). Unfortunately because of assembler I don’t think there will be a 64bit release any time soon. Overall seem to be really cool to keep this one around.
e3 editor
A really cool last minute find is public domain TDE – Thomson-Davis Editor. Released not so long ago in 2007 it has 16, 32bit DOS and 32bit Windows console executable. It has DOS style menus,syntax highlighting, resizable windows and bunch of other features. Looks like a very handy editor. I don’t know how did I miss it. Since source code was available so I was able to make a x64 build. This is really untested so use at your own risk!
Also a recent find – shareware editor called Aurora. I never had a chance to use it in the past but after taking it for a quick spin I fell in love. The text mode UI it feels like it’s own windowing operating system! Originally for DOS, Unix and OS/2, Win32 port is relatively new. Unfortunately it’s no longer maintained or even sold. This is very sad because the editor is extremely cool. I hope the author may be willing to release the source code so it could be maintained.
Thanks to Richard Wells I have learned about OSPlus Text Editor. It’s a really cool little editor with Borland style TUI and multi windows. It doesn’t seem to have any advanced features but it does have a built in calculator and allows background play of WAV and MID. Also allows format conversion of various formats like Word, Write or RTF in to text using Microsoft Office converters. Pretty cool if you need to read Word based documentation on the text console. Sadly looks like the application is no longer maintained. I guess with little bit of luck a 64bit version could be compiled using Mingw64 or MSVC.
OSPlus Text Editor
Also recently learned about HT. This is more intended as a binary/exe/hex editor and analyzer. However it seems to have an excellent plain text editor with HTML and C syntax highlighting. It doesn’t have very advanced features but one that stands out is a very detailed change log, much like Photoshop History. It shows you what exactly has been changed and in what order. This is pretty cool when doing heavy editing of some important files. The latest version is from 2015 and it’s 100% portable single exe. Unfortunately no x64 but I guess it should be easy enough to build one with Mingw64.
Just in freshly “re-discovered” – Microsoft Editor. This editor is a Win32 port of Mark Zbikowski’s port of Z editor to MS-DOS. It has been widely used with Microsoft C as M, MEP and and OS/2 SDK as SDKED. Shockingly looks like Windows NT did actually have a console mode text editor since it’s earliest days or even earlier. Included in Windows NT pre-release CDs and later on the official Windows NT/2000 SDKs, hiding in plain sight, was a Win32 console mode MEP.EXE. Only if Microsoft included this editor with Windows itself the world would be a different place. I have recently dug it out of SDK and made available here. There also are additional builds (including x64) here. There is a dedicated blog post about it.
Microsoft Editor aka MEP aka Z
As with many commercial editors there is an open source edition of Z named K_Edit. It is a modern re-implementation from scratch written in C++ and LUA. It builds only on 64bit Windows and there probably is no chance for any other version. As of today author of K doesn’t provide ready binaries but I was able to make one myself.
K editor on Windows 10 x64
Reader brdlph pointed me to a pretty fresh editor named Textadept. It’s a cross platform, both GUI and TUI editor. Windows console version uses Curses, but it performs remarkably well. It has a look and feel of a modern programmer’s text editor with syntax highlighting, line numbers, etc. The zip archive comes with over 400 files so it’s rather not portable. Also there seem to be no Windows 64bit build although there is one for Linux. The application seem to be very well maintained and the latest release is from January 2018!
Textadept
Reader Andreas Kohl mentioned SlickEdit, which was a text mode editor for DOS, OS/2 and Windows console (before Visual SlickEdit stole it’s name). According to the company’s employee an OS/2 version of the editor was used by some Windows NT team members to develop their operating system. In early days, SlickEdit CTO traveled to Redmond to port the application to a barely yet functioning NT console system so that the developers could use native dev environment. SlickEdit was most likely the very fist commercial application for Windows NT. It was available in 386, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC editions. I’m hoping to obtain old evaluation copies. So far I was able to get this screenshot:
SlickEdit on Windows 10
Last but not least, a new kid on the block, is Micro. It’s a modern times editor for all platforms including Windows. It looks really cool and seem to have all recent amenities from editors such as Sublime Text or Atom. Multi windows, syntax highlighting and even it’s own built in terminal emulator for running a subshell. Micro is 100% portable and comes in as a single x64 exe file. It’s 10 MB size but I think well worth keeping around. Unfortunately it doesn’t have built-in file browser. Yes, there is a plugin for it but I don’t know how to use it. Also seems to have issues with Windows style path names. However I’m really happy that a new editor has been developed in recent times. It has a great chance of becoming the missing Windows text mode editor for the future! Definitely worth keeping an eye on it.
Micro Editor
With this positive news it’s time to wrap up. To summarize there currently is no perfect text mode editor for Windows. I hope that Microsoft can one day step up and provide one. In the mean time I usually stick around to OpenWatcom VI and FAR Manager. For people who do not wish to learn VI, Kinesics KIT may probably be the most perfect editor in short term and Micro in the future. I also hope someone can make a good GNU Nano port using native Win32 APIs without going to pdcurses and cygwin.
Thank you for all suggestions! Have I forgotten or missed any editor? Please let me know and I will promptly add it to the list! Note: please do not include editors that work under Cygwin.
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40 thoughts on “Wanted: Console Text Editor for Windows”
Andreas Kohl on February 15, 2018 at 8:04 pm said:
The X2 Programmer’s Editor (http://www.tangbu.com/x2main.shtml) from Blair W. Thompson is missing – a good cross-platform choice similar to IBM’s E editors. Personal Editor 32/64 should be in the same vein.
There’s also a pack of ISPF-like (KEDIT, XE, …) editors available for Windows that deserve an own section.
tenox on February 16, 2018 at 7:23 pm said:
Thank you! Both great finds. Can you post links to ISPF like editors?
Rugxulo on February 22, 2018 at 3:00 am said:
Perhaps THE? http://hessling-editor.sourceforge.net/
Alexander Voropai on February 15, 2018 at 10:50 pm said:
JFYI:
http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MsDosEditors
I used a TESRSE editor (4Kb BRIEF clone) during 90’th.
http://texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BriefFamily
Thank you for the link! But does Terse have Win32 console edition? Looks to me like it’s a MS-DOS program.
Tux2000 on February 16, 2018 at 4:32 am said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Own_Editor seems to have a Win32 port
Thank you! But does JOE have a console version? From what I can see it opens an integrated Putty terminal window.
hyoenmadan on February 18, 2018 at 6:56 am said:
Looks like is a “yet another *NIX console editor”.
It does have a Cygwin version, but it seems you don’t prefer that kind of setup.
tenox on February 22, 2018 at 10:10 am said:
Mingw yes but not Cygwin unfortunately.
brdlph on February 16, 2018 at 8:17 pm said:
You may want to take a look at textadept (https://foicica.com/textadept/) which gives you both, a GUI text editor as well as a terminal version. And it’s cross platform.
Great thank you!
Federico Bianchi on February 17, 2018 at 12:09 am said:
How about Busybox for Win32 / Win64 at http://frippery.org/busybox/ (simple vi clone included, but there is a lot more)?
Native for windows win32 consoles, please :-P.
It looks like compiled with mingw insted of cygwin so native enough for me. It understands resizing console window as well path names etc. Seems doing pretty well in Win32. I’ll add it!
“Thats biggern than W” … typo?
JED and VILE are very good, but my favorite (for years) has been TDE. JED has excellent mouse support, but VILE is a good alternative for buggy environments where TDE keyboard handling isn’t correct.
Just so you know, TDE was based upon DTE. I think FTE also used some code from that. And VILE was based upon MicroEmacs! (I’d be very surprised if VILE isn’t 64-bit clean although it hasn’t had a full release since 2010.)
Although it hasn’t been updated since 2009, you could also try JASSPA MicroEmacs “zero install”: http://www.jasspa.com/zeroinst.html (or try their JASSPA NanoEmacs).
Not sure about ED-NT, but one new site of his seems to be here: https://sandmann.dotster.com/cwsdpmi/ . No obvious link to /EDstuff/, but try emailing him? Dunno, haven’t heard from him in years (although I did pester him to build a DJGPP .EXE for 1.6, but that too was in 2009). EDIT: Here’s a newer mirror (has 1.7 from 2013): http://web.archive.org/web/20130816044043/http://homer.rice.edu/~sandmann/EDstuff .
Another derivative of JOE is JUPP, but it seems even its “portable” build is partially Cygwin-based (uses its own local main .DLL).
You could probably rebuild E3’s e3.c (from old 2.7.1) as 64-bit if you don’t mind WS keys only.
DOS on February 17, 2018 at 9:23 am said:
There’s HT Editor (https://sourceforge.net/projects/hte/ and http://hte.sourceforge.net/, but the latter doesn’t work right now, I think SourceForge are doing maintenance). It’s not a very fancy text editor, but it can do hex editing too. On Linux at least it’s portable in terms of being a single executable, and on Windows it didn’t need any installation when I used it in the past. For Windows, they only provide 32-bit binaries, but I don’t recall having any trouble building my 64-bit binary on Linux, so I guess it shouldn’t be too hard to build a 64-bit Windows executable.
I used Aurora in the past, it’s certainly powerful and also very pretty!
Thank you! This really cool editor!
Noth on February 24, 2018 at 1:05 am said:
All we need now is a tmux/screen thing. It’s just so bad without… Great post!
Thomas on June 20, 2018 at 1:57 pm said:
I don’t want to screw up your wonderful research, but I’m not a fan of artificially complicating things.
Why not just use the familiar Notepad.
Works great on any server.
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TechGamer17 on June 22, 2018 at 8:06 pm said:
Notepad++ is even better.
Timothy McClanahan on July 2, 2018 at 9:13 am said:
Notepad is not a console text editor, which is the point of this article.
Igor Krasikov on August 15, 2018 at 8:25 am said:
I really like FTE, and I’ve been using it for many years. Recently I moved to a new computer and Windows 10, and now I have problems. If you try to run the compiler (RunCompile or Compile), you get error 0xc00000142 for any compiler or program (RunProgram does not work OK). I downloaded and tried your version (https://github.com/tenox7/ntutils/tree/master/fte), but the result is the same for both 32 and 64 bit.
I think that you checked your version of the editor and can advise me what to do (maybe I’m doing something wrong). I really hope for your help.
Thank you very much in advance!
AnrDaemon on September 2, 2018 at 12:36 am said:
> FAR can be hardly made portable as it comes with 400 files.
Thanks, I laughed.
Setting aside the fact that I carry Far around daily on my work thumb drive for last 20 or so years, FAR since v.3 made explicitly portable, no longer dependent on the registry settings (sadly, I must say, but…).
And it’s infinitely extensible with addons and scripts. Both file manager and editor. (You forgot to mention, that the coloring library for Far is provided by addon, and is the most advanced one.)
David Marcus on September 4, 2018 at 5:06 pm said:
Lugaru’s Epsilon has a console version: https://www.lugaru.com/
Maarten on September 4, 2018 at 9:08 pm said:
Thank you for digging up and reviewing all these console text editors!
Some of those are definitely worth a test-drive …
Currently I do only have experience with FAR Manager and nano. A few comments on those 2:
I am running a stripped down version of FAR (after a lot of testing), consisting of these 4 files:
Far.exe
Far.exe.ini
FarEng.hlf
FarEng.lng
Contents of Far.exe.ini:
UseSystemProfiles=0
UserProfileDir=%FARHOME%\Profile
UserLocalProfileDir=%FARHOME%\Profile\Local
(Upon running FAR for the first time, it will create a Profile folder with a couple of small setting files in it)
With that setup, the FAR filemanager, editor and fileviewer (recommended replacement for the MORE and TYPE command, btw) work without any problems. Probably some exotic options are not available, but so far I can’t say I miss anything (except for line numbering, but that is also unavailable in the ‘full version’)
Run the editor standalone with command: FAR.exe /E filename.txt
Viewer standalone: FAR.exe /V filename.txt
MORE replacement: dir | FAR.exe /V –
An older version of nano (https://nano-editor.org/dist/v2.5/NT/nano-2.5.3.zip) is compiled without mingw (as far as I can tell, as I’m no expert (by far!)). At least it is prtable…
Instructions on how to compile are in the zip.
AnrDaemon on September 6, 2018 at 5:53 pm said:
Far is useless without addons.
No source coloring, no archive support, no network browsing, nothing.
Not even a temporary panel.
I see no reason why would you kill your own experience like that.
Wendy Krieger on September 5, 2018 at 8:09 am said:
The semware editor comes with a text-mode interface, but i think it constructs its own console. It adds onto the gui version. I use both. Its highly portable, I use it in WinPE sessions, and the essentials fit onto a 1440 floppy. Even without its masses of files, you can still have the macros you want. So you can have sort separately. You can run just the exes or have the balance in a direction set with “config.mac”.
For the file manager, I use Brian Harvard’s ‘file commander’ http://silk.apana.org.au/fc.html which also will fit onto a floppy disk. This exists in 64bit and Linux versions too, one licence covers all versions. It is portable too. I have used this on WinPE. Like Norton Commander, the editor is built-in, as well as a lister.
For another freeware editor, there is also the ‘reactos edit’ program, a port of the freedos editor to win32. While you’re there, you can grab hold of the device manager and ctm (console task manager).
billy chen on October 4, 2018 at 5:40 pm said:
Since 1993 start 8-16 bits release TDE – Thomson-Davis Editor is my primary editor. Even C#, C++ MS projects latest works, only use VS for command line build. I see tenox has tdew-x64.exe build but do not know what build env and tools was using in the https://github.com/tenox7/ntutils/tree/master/tde Any one could kindly provide pointer of *TDE x64 build tool chain and environment information* ?
Andrew Miller on January 3, 2019 at 11:24 am said:
There’s also MinEd – http://towo.net/mined/
tenox on January 7, 2019 at 10:33 pm said:
But MinEd is not console. It opens graphical window. Unless I’m missing something?
Andrew Miller on January 11, 2019 at 12:31 pm said:
No it’s a console applicaton with a TUI interface and mouse support. It’s a few years old (2015) but supports UTF-8 and UTF-16.
There are some screen shots of it here:
http://www.kompx.com/en/windows-console-applications-text-editors.htm#mined
I’m unable to get the 64-bit version working for some reason, but the 32-bit version works fine (both included in the Windows download).
tenox on January 15, 2019 at 9:26 am said:
Yes, but MinEd is a Cygwin app. It comes with cygwin dll. It’s not really a Windows application.
Jeff on March 1, 2019 at 11:07 pm said:
Does the FTE x64 binary that you created support Syntax Highlighting? I ran it under PowerShell looking at a bash script but it didn’t highlight anything.
Cool selection of editors! Thank you.
Gavin on June 27, 2019 at 8:55 pm said:
Always nice to see others looking at quick console based tools. I have taken to using eXtreme File Manager (Senh Liu – http://textmode.netne.net/Extreme.html) with Kitart for menus, and have been searching for a customizable powerful editor.
I like FTE and am grateful to you for compiling some modern binaries of FTE.exe. However, these are of limited use without a compatible compiled binary of cFTE.exe to compile the configuration files.
Would you consider creating the missing link?
tenox on July 4, 2019 at 7:31 pm said:
Thanks!! I added cfte.exe for x64 to the repo. x86 and axp maybe some other day.
sunwukong on December 22, 2019 at 2:30 am said:
For non 64 bit win I still use the Ed.exe tool that came with stacker, no menu banner just hit ctrl+z to save file. Quick and efficent at 18971 bytes
neozeed on December 22, 2019 at 2:42 am said:
You can bind it with the MS-DOS Player and run it on Win64!
Wow this seems to be working I can run GW Basic on 64 bit win 10!
also ED.exe (was 18k now 93k but win 10 can do it)
ed.exe to eed.exe
br.com __>> bbr.exe
ubibm32.,exe –>>uubibm.exe works great like basic but with 2600 digits of precision
It’s one of those awesome ‘hidden’ things. Although the name conveys what it does, it makes it hard to find.
I’ve used it to get old build tools going where I don’t have source or it’ll be too much work to make Win32 or Win64. Although it’s 100% C cpu core, it’s not going to win any benchmarks, but it’s GREAT to lean on. There is also run68 with will run an incredible amount of x68000 CLI based tools. I used it to run the assembler & linker for the SHARP C / GCC port on Win32. Although I’m 99% sure this one is newer.
I found a store in Akihabra that sells many of the x68000 fixes and stuff. I’m going to take my broken x68000 there and see if I can get it going. Although what I think I really need is a RGB 23 pin monitor. Sigh.
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PD: Peoria officer shoots suspect in face after suspect goes for gun during traffic stop
The suspect was transported to the hospital with serious injuries and is still being treated, police said.
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PEORIA, Ariz. - No officers were injured after a shooting at a traffic stop in Peoria Wednesday night, police say.
According to police, after being pulled over for a traffic violation, a 23-year-old suspect reached for a gun that was in his lap as a sergeant approached the vehicle. The sergeant shot at least one round at the suspect, hitting him in the face.
More officers and paramedics arrived on scene. The suspect was transported to the hospital with serious injuries and is still being treated.
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Drunk Employee Arrested at CERN After Causing 3.2 Magnitude Earthquake
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Geneva | One of CERN’s top scientists has been arrested after “highly dangerous operations” were conducted under his authority at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider based in Geneva.
Russian physicist Alexandreï Ziouganov has been accused of “breaking CERN security rules” by “attempting highly risky and dangerous maneuvers” after he urged technicians to push the giant 27 km long particle accelerator to its limits, avoiding potential warning signs given by his coworkers while intoxicated by alcohol and under heavy medication.
The operation is believed to have caused an earthquake of 3.2 magnitude on the Richter scale, comparable to the impact of a large lightning bolt, assess experts.
« No serious damage was dealt to the Large Hadron Collider but several hyper-capacitors were damaged during the tests »
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Under the supervision of the physicist, the LHC successfully collided two proton beams with 7.5 TeV of energy per proton, resulting in a record-breaking 13 TeV collision which is believed to have caused a 3.2 magnitude earthquake in the region
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The Russian physicist known for his bold character has been an outspoken CERN critic since he joined the team of international scientists nearly 5 years ago.
“He is a man of extremes” explains his coworker, Romanian physicist Yuri Malania. “He is possibly one of the 100 most brilliant minds in the world, but his character is like that of an erupting volcano. He wants everything to go faster, he strongly believes we are decades backward in science. He wishes humanity would already be colonizing Mars and the Moon, he wishes to leave his mark and push the limits of science into the 21st century,” he adds.
In a 2013 interview with Russian science magazine атомный, the physicist known for his outspokenness said that CERN scientists “were a bunch of wimps”, “incapable of understanding the importance of this technology” and that “they would never understand his genius”.
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The controversial physicist is also known for his obsession with dark matter and black holes.
“His dream is clearly to recreate a black hole within the LHC” explains French science journalist, Jeanne Legrand.
“He has always been a strong supporter within the European scientific community of increasing the capacities of the LHC and is at the origin of the highly controversial proposition of the LHCx, a process which would accelerate particles at speeds a thousand times faster, although most scientists do not approve of such tests for the moment,” she explains.
Last year his controversial views and statements on the LHC provoked a wave of hysteria after Pope Francis warned such tests could “have disastrous consequences for humanity” and could “open the gates of Hell”.
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Life, Liberty and An Active Shooter Plan
On October 4, 2017 By mycrazymessyamazinglifeIn Uncategorized
I woke up to an email from my daughter’s middle school in my inbox this morning. The email explained that the school district had been working with law enforcement last night, trying to determine if reported threats of violence were credible. The police received several phone calls from students and parents, citing whispers about a gun in school. Today.
Las Vegas happened two days ago.
My daughter sat across the table from me. Between bites of cereal, she sang along with the radio.
Then she asked why I was crying.
She’s eleven. She loves books and music and sleeps with a stuffed animal. She is already terrified of mass shootings.
Should I tell her there were threats? While police believed there was no validity to the threats, there were armed police at the school today as a precaution. Was 6:45 this morning the time for another discussion about public shootings and a threat to her school? It seems like I ask myself these questions every day.
If you are a proponent of an unfettered second amendment, I have a few questions for you instead.
Why does your right to stockpile weapons of war trump my daughter’s right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Is my daughter reveling in her liberty, in her freedom to fear for her safety in every public space? My child is scared of being shot on the street. At a concert. A movie. The mall. Or school. And there is precedent for every fear. Maybe it doesn’t curtail her actions or change her movements. But living in fear is its own type of prison, one fortified by every person who claims his right to collect guns is greater than her right to safety.
I was crying while I dropped my eleven-year-old off for school in front of armed police. There is nothing happy or freeing about worrying if your child will get shot at school. We reached a state in America years ago that the pursuit of happiness fell far behind the pursuit of money and ammunition from the NRA.
What part of “a well-regulated” Militia don’t you understand?
A well regulated Militia. It’s literally right there in the first sentence. How does “well-regulated” translate to barely regulated? Unregulated?
How about the security of the State?
How did the Bill of Rights get so twisted, that the security of the State doesn’t include citizens feeling safe on the street? Children feeling safe in their schools?
Part of the job of government is to regulate danger. We have laws relating to the operation of motor vehicles, food safety standards and recalls for products that “might” hurt an infant. Guns are treated as some magic object, free from the cumbersome burden of product safety research or regulation.
On the subject of research, why isn’t there more research into guns as a public health threat?
In 2014-2015, there were four laboratory-confirmed cases of Ebola which originated in the United States. This caused the CDC to revise guidelines, to monitor the patients’ friends and possible contacts. Nationally, staff was trained on Ebola containment protocols. The military was deployed to West Africa. Research led to changes in patient care and a coordinated public response across multiple countries and continents.
In 2017, 1516 people have died from gun violence. Yet the CDC isn’t allowed to research gun violence.
What about the right to an appropriate public education?
Off the top of my head, I know four kids who stayed home from school today. They didn’t go to school because they were scared they would be shot. The parents felt strongly enough to allow those kids to stay home.
As part of an appropriate public education, the middle school already has active shooter drills. Every kid has an “active shooter plan” in place. Most of the kids plan to run for the woods.
I’m not upset with the school district. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and they have to do what they can to keep the kids safe, including an “active shooter” plan. I appreciate their taking threats seriously, involving law enforcement and keeping the parents informed. I’m sure they feel as helpless as I do. But to claim that gun violence doesn’t impact learning is somewhere between obtuse and criminal.
What do I say to my daughter, every day? Do I ignore the threats? Do I discuss it? Do you truly believe these discussions make an eleven year-old feel free?
I sent my daughter to school today because I believe that if I keep her out of public spaces, out of school and away from her own pursuit of a best life, I let the gun interests terrorizing our nation win.
But what do you say to an eleven year old who is already scared? Ignore it? Do I suggest she just hug her stuffed bunny a little closer at night and hope for the best?
There’s not much freedom to choose, honestly. When she gets home today, we will have our first discussion about the idea of “if you hear something, say something.” I will teach my eleven-year-old to police the halls of her own school and community, to look out for her own safety and that of her peers. There’s little choice in a country so in love with guns that for many people keeping an arsenal is more important than keeping her safe.
You really want to argue that teaching my daughter to run for the woods in the event of a school shooting is allowing for the pursuit of happiness?
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Bravo – they published it! Time for some serious introspection – personally and nationally.
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10:25am Jun 30, 2019
Scott Morrison has declared those who voted for him don't care how he became prime minister, brushing off questions about his role in the downfall of Malcolm Turnbull.
Last week, Sky News and The Australian separately exposed behind-the-scenes details of the Liberal leadership battle that resulted in Mr Morrison becoming prime minister.
More revelations spilled out over the weekend ahead of the publication of a new book, Plots and Prayers by columnist Niki Savva, a former adviser to Peter Costello.
She writes that Mr Morrison's supporters deliberately voted for Peter Dutton, pumping up his vote in the first spill motion with the intention of removing Mr Turnbull.
But Mr Morrison said the media are the only ones interested in last year's leadership ructions, and voters just want the government "to get cracking on all those things they want".
"That's where they want my mind focused, not on musing over histories," he told AAP in Osaka, Japan, where he has been attending the G20 summit.
"It's all ancient history, we've had an election since then."
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Trade Minister Simon Birmingham insisted Mr Morrison had his predecessor's back.
"I have complete confidence that Scott Morrison did everything he possibly could to support Malcolm Turnbull," he told ABC's Insiders on Sunday.
He said how Liberal colleagues voted in the first spill wasn't the responsibility of Mr Morrison.
"Each and every individual member of the Liberal Party room is responsible for their vote in those circumstances," he said.
"None of us can claim responsibility or expect to be able to direct the votes of any one of our colleagues."
Writing in The Australian on Saturday, Ms Savva said Mr Turnbull had plenty of people to blame for his demise but his anger was targeted at Finance Minister Mathias Cormann.
She said the former prime minister was convinced Senator Cormann's betrayal, by resigning and throwing his support behind his close friend Mr Dutton during the heat of the party's upheaval, was staged and timed to revive a faltering challenge.
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National Animal of India
Tiger (Panthera Tigris, Linnaeus) is the national animal of India. The tiger is also called the Lord of the Jungle and showcases India's natural life riches. As the national animal of India, tiger symbolizes India's untamed life riches.
The uncommon mix of beauty, quality, dexterity and gigantic power has earned the tiger incredible regard and high regard. The Bengal Tiger was announced as the national animal of India in April 1973, with the start of Project Tiger, to ensure the tigers in India. Before this, the lion was the national animal of India.
The national anthem of India, Jana-Gana-Mana, was written by Rabindranath Tagore and was embraced by the Constituent Assembly of India on January 24th, 1950. Learn More
National Flower
Lotus is the National flower of India. The most imperative thing about lotus is that even in the wake of developing in dim water it is untouched by its impurity. Learn More
The National Fruit
Mangoes are native to India and thus truly Indian. The great Mughal emperor Akbar had planted about 1,00,000 mango trees in Lakhi Bagh in Darbhanga. Learn More
The National Song
'Vande Matram' Our national song was composed in Sanskrit by Bankimchandra Chatterjee. It has inspired many freedom fighters. Learn More
The national flag of India is horizontal rectangular in shape and has three colours – deep saffron, white and green with Ashoka chakra (Wheel of Law) at its centre. Learn More
The National Game
In spite of cricket’s huge popularity in India, hockey is still the national game of India. Hockey when declared as the national game was very popular. Learn More
The National Tree of India
The Banyan tree represents eternal life, because of its ever-expanding branches.
The National Emblem of India
The Lion Capital of Ashoka at Sarnath is the national emblem of India.
National River of India
The Ganges or Ganga, this is the most sacred river on the earth.
National Currency of India
Indian Rupee is the official currency of the Republic of India.
National Emblem of India
The National Emblem of India has been taken from the Sarnath Lion capital raised by Ashoka. The national emblem of India was embraced by the Government of India on 26th January 1950. In the National emblem, just three lions are visible and the fourth one is escaped the view. It comprises of four Asiatic Lions remaining consecutive on a circular abacus. The abacus has sculptures of an elephant, a steed, a bull and a lion.
These are separated by wheels in the middle. The national emblem stands on a full sprouted inverted lotus bloom. The words Satyameva Jayate from Mundaka Upanishad, meaning 'Truth Alone Triumphs', are inscribed below the abacus in Devanagari script.
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Tag: Air Force Academy
Guardians of Freedom air show takes it to the next level
The sights and sounds of freedom and the incredible muscle of Air Force air power was on full display here Oct. 26-27, 2019, as thousands turned out for the Sheppard AFB Guardians of Freedom Open House & Air Show.
Energy Action Month: AF Academy cadets optimize the future
With Energy Action Month in full swing, cadets at the Air Force Academy are taking the initiative to learn how energy impacts the mission, and what Airmen can do to improve combat capability through optimized operations. Every October, the Air Force recognizes the national campaign as a way to highlight the importance energy plays in daily operations, and showcases ways to build an energy-smart force through innovative technologies, policies, best practices and data solutions.
Shaw hosts cadets for Operation Air Force
U.S. Air Force Academy cadets are visiting Team Shaw as part of the Operation Air Force program, June 6 to 21.
Air liaison officers test cadets
Cadets from the Air Force Academy attended an Air Liaison Officers Aptitude Assessment Feb. 13 to 17 at Camp Bullis, Texas. Current ALOs and enlisted tactical air control party members from the 93rd Air Ground Operations Wing filled the roles of cadre and raters to assess if the cadets have what it takes to join their career field.
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Articles, Interview
Real Estate Wrap up: 2019 Review and 2020 Predictions with Andrew Gaucher
Posted on December 31, 2019 December 18, 2019 by addy
As we know already, Andrew Gaucher has plenty of street cred when it comes to his place in the Kelowna real estate market. He is the founder and president of Catalyst Land Development and general manager of G Group Land Development, and somehow manages to find time to serve as the vice-president of the McKinley Beach community.
We also know that he constantly monitors the market, assesses its trends, and makes strong, data-driven assertions about where these markets will go. Last summer when he sat down with addy to share some of these predictions about where the market was headed. Now we’re revisiting those assessments to see if they came to fruition, and what the next trends will be.
2019 Prediction: “a pickup to the market in the second half of [2019] or in Q2 of next year”
Result: “The second half of this year has been stronger than the first,” Gaucher says. The trend has been seen all across Canada, possibly as a ripple effect from national elections, and more people are beginning to look at Kelowna as an investment possibility.
“With a significant life purchase like real estate, people want something big they can tie their decision to,” Gauher says. “Something like an election. Political implications can heavily sway this in both Canada and the States.” He says investors keep a close eye on political happenings and want to know the good and the bad before pouring their money into a new investment.
2019 Prediction: Kelowna is likely going to see a longer than normal expansion period.
Although the first half of 2019 certainly saw a contraction period, Gaucher argues that the back half of 2019 started to see the beginning signs of expansion. He’s also confident that the expansion will continue to grow well into 2020, and maybe even 2010, thanks to the imminent signing of the USMCA and a China-United States trade deal. In addition to the trade deal and United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement, Andrew is also keeping a close eye on four key factors that will determine the momentum of this expansion period:
Political interference, both positive and negative. National political promises, should they come to fruition, could stimulate the market. However, as the market rebounds, there is always the chance that politicians will step in with additional changes in an effort to prevent an over expansion or excessive price inflation..
Economic realities. “Statistically, Canada and the US are due for a plateau or recession any time,” Gaucher says. History predicts it will happen, but it’s impossible to say when, or if, it will actually occur. “Trump will do what he can to keep the stimulus going before the election,” he says. If the US avoids recession, Canada will follow suit, which could expansion into 2021 or later.
Negative announcement by Tolko. This lumber company, which employs approximately 200 workers locally, is closing all of its British Columbia locations. Kelowna could suffer by losing those jobs, but on the other hand, the move means a large parcel of over 40 acres will open up downtown, and new, exciting development could take place there. This could mean a significant boom as the site is redeveloped into a higher density, mixed-use property. It could take five to ten years, but it could be a huge boon to continued downtown revitalization.
Moderation in the immediate condo demand. Right now, new condo developments in Kelowna are 80 to 90 percent sold before construction is even complete. “It’s not sold out, though,” Gaucher says. “There are still other condo developments coming.” In the next one to three years, he anticipates that the demand for condos will become more moderate as all in construction inventory is completed and moves into the market.
“Either way, historically speaking, the market should strengthen [again] in the next 12 months at the latest,” he says. Confidence is high right now among investors and developers, he says, which means new projects and higher price points are coming into the market.
“We’re seeing the most in-demand housing markets in the $600, to $800,000 range and another bump in the $1 million to $2 million range; this increases investor confidence,” he says. “Urban revitalization and the higher end in the luxury market are quite robust right now. There’s also a lot of new market housing being developed for the entry-level or government-subsidized segment.” This flux will add fuel to the investing fire in the coming months.
Considering recent conditions at the national and international levels, Gaucher predicts that markets will pick up at a reasonable pace, with residential values rising perhaps three to eight percent in 2020. All in all, it’s continuing to look like a robust market, and Kelowna continues to be a wise place to invest when it comes to the historically safe real estate market.
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Portage Cove State Rec Site
This small campground, less than one mile south of the cruise ship dock in Haines, is for bicyclists and others arriving on foot—no vehicles are allowed to here. Don’t miss the nice overlook in the forest above the campground, with views over the water to the Chilkat Mountains.
This small campground, less than one mile south of the cruise ship dock in Haines, is for bicyclists and others arriving on…
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Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve
The Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve is the site of the largest gathering of bald eagles in the world. Each November, up to 3,600 bald eagles descend upon this 48,000-acre preserve to take advantage of a late-season run of chum salmon. There’s a roadside pull-off at 19-mile Haines Highway with informational displays and a two-mile paved trail along the Chilkat River. Much of the preserve is inaccessible, but in the summer, rafting and jet boat tours are a great way to see more than you would along the road
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Sullivan Island State Marine Park
Just south of the Chilkat Island is Sullivan Island, and at its southern end, you’ll find Sullivan Island State Marine Park. It has the same accessibility issues as the Chilkat Islands; the easiest way to see these islands is to look for them as you cruise via ferry or cruise ship down the Lynn Canal between Haines and Juneau.
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Chilkat State Park
Chilkat State Park, seven miles south of Haines, is less visited than Chilkoot Lake, probably because it’s further from town and the road is gravel. But don’t let that stop you. The park is quiet, it’s one of the best local areas to look for moose, and the view of the Rainbow Glacier—a hanging glacier with a huge waterfall dropping from its face—is world-class.
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Chilkat Islands State Marine Park
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The Art Gallery of South Australia, founded in 1881, is home to one of Australia’s great art collections, exhibited in one of Adelaide’s most beautiful buildings. It is visited by more than one million art lovers each year.
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Numerous bus routes [routes 97, 98, 99, 170, 171, 172, 174, 176, 178, 281, 286, 287, 288, 613, 626, 630] run on North Terrace. Alight near Pulteney Street at stop T1 (westbound) or G1 (eastbound), right outside the Gallery.
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US: No concessions on N Korea deal
US officials reject suggestions of desperate measures to save disarmament deal.
US officials say North Korea must abide by verification procedures [EPA]
It has also objected to US plans for detailed inspections and searches as part of the verification process which it says would be a violation of its dignity.
As a consequence, last month North Korea announced it had stopped work on disabling its main nuclear plant at Yongbyon, barring UN inspectors from the site and announcing plans to restart the main reactor.
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On Friday Christopher Hill, the chief US negotiator in North Korea's nuclear programme, was expected to wrap up a visit to the North after spending an extra day in negotiations with senior North Korean officials aimed at salvaging the disarmament deal.
Hill was expected to table a face-saving suggestion for Pyongyang to submit to China – North Korea's closest ally - its version on how its nuclear declaration should be verified, according to an AFP report citing US officials.
However, with communications into North Korea difficult US officials said it was unclear how North Korean officials had reacted to the proposal.
"The ball is really in the North Koreans' court," McCormack told reporters at the state department on Thursday.
In separate comments an unnamed senior US official said Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State, was not prepared to compromise on the demand for strict verification of Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
"From her point of view, they meet the criteria or they don't and there is nothing inevitable about this process," the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
North Korea, which tested an atomic weapon in October 2006, had agreed to disable its nuclear programme in return for aid and other concessions under a pact with South Korea, China, Japan, Russia and the US.
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Montreal International Jazz Festival 2017
By DAVE KAUFMAN
The Montreal International Jazz Festival has just concluded its 38th year. I've been fortunate to have attended more than 30 of them and this year ranked among the best. I've covered the event as a photographer for All About Jazz since 2011. The festival is a total music immersion experience presenting some 600 concerts over the course of 11 days. It can be overwhelming and exhausting, but more often than not it is incredibly exhilarating. Some of the highlights of this year include concerts by the The Bad Plus, Danilo Pérez, Jack DeJohnette and Hudson, Charles Lloyd, Bill Frisell, Joshua Redman, and Ravi Coltrane. Some of the most memorable concerts featured local artists including John Roney, Joe Sullivan and Yannick Rieu. John Kelman and Mark Sullivan have written excellent in-depth reviews of the concerts at this years fest. Here are some of the photos taken across several performances.
John Roney Recreates The Koln Concert At The Montreal...
Ron Sexsmith at The Montreal International Jazz Festival...
Flavia Coelho at The Montreal International Jazz Festival...
Thomas Morgan and Bill Frisell at The Montreal...
Bill Frisell with Thomas Morgan at The Montreal...
Larry Grenadier, Jack DeJohnette and John Scofield with...
John Medeski and Larry Grenadier with Hudson at The...
Larry Grenadier with Hudson at The Montreal International...
Dave King with the Bad Plus at The Montreal International...
Jack Dejohnette and John Scofield with Hudson at The...
Jack DeJohnette with Hudson at The Montreal International...
Ethan Iverson, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Reid Anderson and Dave...
Ethan Iverson with the Bad Plus at The Montreal...
Reid Anderson with the Bad Plus at The Montreal...
Jack DeJohnette receives the Miles Davis Award from Andre...
Christine Jensen receives the Oscar Peterson Award from...
Rudresh Mahanthappa with the Bad Plus at The Montreal...
Kurt Rosenwinkel With Caipi At The Montreal International...
Reuben Rogers with the Charles Lloyd Quartet at The...
Gerald Clayton with the Charles Lloyd Quartet at The...
Gerald Clayton, Reuben Rogers, Charles Lloyd and Eric...
Reuben Rogers, Charles Lloyd and Eric Harland with the...
Charles Lloyd with Quartet at The Montreal International...
Charles Lloyd and Reuben Rogers with the Charles Lloyd...
Eric Harland with the Charles Lloyd Quartet at The Montreal...
Itumeleng Molale with Shabaka and the Ancestors at The...
Shabaka Hutchings with the Ancestors at The Montreal...
Sammy Miller and the Congregation at The Montreal...
Mthunzi Mvubu, Ariel Zamonsky and Shabaka Hutchings with...
Siyabonga Mthembu with Shabaka and the Ancestors at The...
Ariel Zamonsky and Shabaka Hutchings with Shabaka and the...
Sam Harris, Ambrose Akinmusire, Harish Raghavan and Justin...
Justin Brown with the Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet at The...
Ben Flocks with Sammy Miller and the Congregation at The...
Ambrose Akinmusire with Quartet at The Montreal...
Ben Flocks and Alphonso Horne with Sammy Miller and the...
Alphonso Horne with Sammy Miller and the Congregation at...
Harish Raghavan with the Ambrose Akinmusire Quartet at The...
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In Pictures Dave Kaufman Bad Plus Danilo Perez Hudson charles lloyd Bill Frisell Joshua Redman Ravi Coltrane Shabaka And The Ancestors John Roney Joe Sullivan Yannick Rieu Montreal International Jazz Festival 2017 Montreal International Jazz Festival Montreal Canada Festival International de Jazz de Montreal
Jazz Near Montreal
Photos of The Manhattan Transfer "Swings Christmas" concert in Cremona
Peter Bernstein & Guido di Leone "To Jim Hall" Quartet in Casalmaggiore
Jane Monheit at The American Theatre
Forlì Open Music 2019
By Carlo Mogavero
Paolo Fresu And Uri Caine At Folk Club
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HTC U12+ review: No buttons, no sale
David Ruddock
2018/06/21 9:58am PDT Jun 21, 2018
1 Specs
2 The Good
3 The Not So Good
4 Where to buy, what’s in the box, accessories, warranty, and more
5 Camera sample gallery
6 Our verdict: Should you buy an HTC U12+?
6.1 Why buy?
6.2 Why not?
The U12+ is the latest high-end smartphone from HTC, and while the ‘+’ moniker may have you wondering where the “regular” version is - this is it: HTC is, for the time being, only launching a large premium phone in 2018. It packs the latest Snapdragon 845 processor from Qualcomm, a large 6.0” Quad HD LCD display, and four cameras. It also costs a whopping $800, and you can only buy it direct from HTC or Amazon in the US.
Chipset Snapdragon 845
Storage 64/128GB.
Display 6.0” LCD @ 2880x1440 (18:9 ratio)
Camera 12MP+16MP dual rear, 8MP dual front
Software Android 8.0
Measurements 156.6x73.9x8.7mm, 188g
Colors Black, translucent blue
Ruggedization IP68
Charging Qualcomm Quick Charge 4+ (USB-PD compatible), no wireless charging
Networks AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon in the US
Pricing 64GB $799, 128GB $849 (buy)
Large display The 6" 18:9 aspect ratio display is long, but not wide - so the U12+ isn't especially difficult to hold. Viewing angles are good, colors are highly saturated (not my favorite, but most people like this), and brightness indoors is solid. It even has a circular polarizer, making it one of the first HTC phones that's usable with sunglasses.
Striking design While I’m not a fan of the semi-transparent blue look, the silver-black version of this phone is quite pretty… if insanely fingerprint-prone.
Camera The U12+’s primary rear camera takes some of the best photos I’ve seen on any smartphone, and the 2x zoom telephoto lens is pretty handy.
USB Power Delivery The Quick Charge 4.0 certification means the U12 can use both Quick Charge 3.0 and USB-PD chargers to top up quickly.
Fingerprint scanner It seems fast and accurate, and it’s in the right place (on the back of the phone).
Speakers The U12+’s dual stereo speakers are loud and sound pretty good, even cranked to the max - though one does face downward.
The Not So Good
Power and volume buttons They’re gone - HTC’s replaced them with pressure-sensitive dummy keys that provide haptic feedback (they don’t depress), and they’re absolutely terrible.
Expensive At $800, the U12+ is up there with some of the most expensive smartphones on the market, and given its shortcomings, that price is hard to justify.
No headphone jack HTC doesn’t even include a USB to 3.5mm adapter dongle with the U12+ - you have to buy it separately. That’s annoying and money-grubby.
Slippery The U12+, like the U11, is extremely slippery. And it’s made out of glass, so you'll want to protect it. Good luck finding more than a handful of good third-party cases out there.
Sense Sense is looking old and tired, as are HTC’s stock apps. This phone would feel so much more modern with Android One. Performance is nothing to write home about, either - the U12+ doesn’t feel as quick or smooth as a Pixel 2 or the OnePlus 6.
Battery life Even with a fairly large 3,500mAh battery, the U12+ doesn’t last long enough. It managed 3-4 hours of screen on time compared to my Pixel 2 XL’s 5-6. That’s very subpar in 2018.
Support I’ll be frank - I’ve heard some very, very troubling things about HTC’s warranty support in the last couple of years. Things that would make me actively discourage anyone I knew from buying an HTC phone.
Verizon issues When I activated the U12+ on Verizon, I couldn’t receive SMS messages and had to go through a complex process to get my account flagged to work in LTE-only mode. Even after that, MMS didn’t work and now visual voicemail is disabled on my account. HTC wasn’t able to reproduce this issue, but if any normal consumer were to run into this, it’d be a huge headache.
Where to buy, what’s in the box, accessories, warranty, and more
In the US, the U12+ is only available via HTC’s website and Amazon. It’ll cost you $799, and HTC offers a 24-month zero-interest payment plan option. There are 64 and 128GB models, with the latter costing $849. The two colors offered in the US are black and translucent blue, and the black is only available when you buy the 64GB version.
The U12+ doesn’t have a headphone jack and doesn’t come with a USB-C to 3.5mm adapter dongle. You’ll have to buy that separately, and HTC sells them for $12 on its website. The phone does come with a pair of HTC’s U Sonic earbuds (they’re pretty decent), so you won’t be without headphones entirely if you choose to forego the adapter. Just know that the selection of USB-C headphones on the market is really, really small at this point, and so those U Sonics are probably your best bet for a wired headphone anyway if you don’t want to deal with the dongle.
The U12+ doesn't have a headphone jack or even include a 3.5mm adapter in the box - you'll have to buy one from HTC.
A Quick Charge 3.0 (Rapid Charge 3, as HTC calls it) charger is included with the U12+, though the phone supports and should work just fine with Qualcomm Quick Charge 4 certified chargers and, by extension, USB Power Delivery chargers as well. I tested it with my Google Pixelbook USB-PD charger and the phone correctly detected it as a rapid charging source.
The U12+ probably won’t ever have much in the way of an accessory ecosystem. There are, at the time of this writing, just a handful of cases available for the U12+ on Amazon, though thankfully two of them are made by Spigen. That’s still not encouraging, and this phone seems unlikely to ever have many third-party case options, given HTC will probably not sell many U12+s.
HTC offers a standard boilerplate 1-year warranty from defects in the US, and requires you to mail in the U12+ should it need warranty service. HTC does not provide a loaner device, does not cover any accidental damage, and does not guarantee it will cover shipping costs. There is no option offered by HTC for an extended warranty or accidental damage protection.
Camera sample gallery
Our verdict: Should you buy an HTC U12+?
No. While the HTC U12+ is a phone that fans of HTC’s U11 may enjoy, it is also very flawed. It’s better in a number of ways than HTC’s previous phone, offering a newer chipset, a much better navigation and fingerprint scanner layout, and a larger display with a modern wide aspect ratio design. The thing is, HTC’s competitors were offering this stuff a year ago - HTC is playing catch-up. And it’s pretty noticeable at this stage.
The U12+ has great cameras and a striking design, but the terrible new power and volume buttons, subpar battery life, high pricing, and questionable warranty support are enough for us to say "stay away."
While it does have the latest and greatest Snapdragon processor, little slips like not even including a 3.5mm headphone adapter in the box just make it feel like HTC isn’t trying anymore. The bigger issues - the awful power and volume keys, mediocre battery life, and very high price - are what really sink this ship, though. Subpar battery life on an $800 phone in 2018 just isn’t acceptable, especially when it’s got a battery as big as this one (3,500mAh). And whatever performance advantage HTC’s phones might have held in years past, its phones just don’t feel as smooth or well-optimized as Google’s or OnePlus’.
A custom launcher helps hide some of Sense's staleness, but it's becoming noticeable just how outdated most of HTC's skin is.
But most damning are easily HTC’s “innovative” power and volume buttons - they're just plain bad, and would make this phone unpleasant to use at any price. Simply adjusting the volume on this phone is far more difficult than any other I've ever reviewed; that's insane. I imagine the return rate for the U12+ will be sky-high for this reason alone.
The U12+'s volume and power "buttons" are egregiously bad. Even without its other flaws, these are reason enough to skip this phone.
And finally, there’s the post-purchase experience. Based on emails we’ve received about warranty support for US HTC customers in recent years and truly abysmal ratings on consumer sites, I personally can’t recommend HTC phones. We did some investigating into HTC's warranty support, and what we found is deeply concerning - read more about it here.
While it’s not a bad smartphone, the U12+ is one that I truly see no reason to recommend. It’s sad to see a once-dominant and innovative company fall quite so far, but HTC has been left behind, and the U12+ just isn’t competitive in 2018. It does not receive our recommendation.
Big, wide-aspect screen and modern internal hardware.
Truly excellent rear cameras.
It looks pretty.
The absolutely terrible fake power and volume "buttons" will drive you crazy.
Battery life is not good.
HTC's warranty support is terrible, and you're handing them $800 for the privilege of dealing with it.
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Toms River expands nepotism law
Toms River's department heads can no longer work in the same department with immediate family members.
Toms River expands nepotism law Toms River's department heads can no longer work in the same department with immediate family members. Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/2k8BC1q
Jean Mikle, @jeanmikle Published 5:04 p.m. ET Jan. 26, 2017 | Updated 7:44 p.m. ET Jan. 26, 2017
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TOMS RIVER - A change in the township's nepotism law will bar relatives of department heads from working in the same department with family members.
The Township Council unanimously adopted an ordinance, making the change at its Tuesday meeting.
A 2008 ordinance barred the mayor and council members from hiring immediate family member for a full-time position.
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Immediate family is defined by the law as a spouse, child, stepchild, parent, step-parent, brother, step-brother, sister, step-sister, grandparent, father-in-law, mother-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, half-brother, half-sister, nephew or niece.
Township Administrator Paul J. Shives said the 2008 ordinance did not prevent Toms River's department heads from hiring relatives. The new measure bars department heads from hiring immediate family members to positions within their department, or to positions supervised by that department head.
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"It extends the prohibition to department heads," Shives said. "They were not included in the original ordinance."
But the ordinance allows immediate family members of department heads who were hired by Dec. 31 to stay in their jobs.
The ordinance also makes an exception for positions covered by testing requirements, like purchasing agent and chief financial officer, Shives said. Those jobs require employees to pass examinations and be licensed by the state.
"The town is not involved in that testing process," Shives said. "So the anti-nepotism ordinance shouldn't apply."
Jean Mikle: 732-643-4050, jmikle@gannettnj.com
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Ford workers break their silence on faulty transmissions: 'Everybody knew'
Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press on Dec 5, 2019
Published in Automotive News
DETROIT -- They knew the truth and kept quiet.
Their secret wasn't a secret at all in engineering, product development, research, design or manufacturing within Ford Motor Co., say seven current and former employees who worked to develop and launch the Fiesta and Focus cars that would become known for defective automatic transmissions.
"My hands are dirty. I feel horrible," said an engineer who played a key role in developing the popular compact cars.
"You think of the gentleman who stood up for the space shuttle Challenger, saying if they launched that with the ice on it that it's going to blow up. Well, these kinds of really horrific technical errors seemed to pass right through at Ford on this project," the engineer said.
Asked whether the company ignored early warnings from its experts, Ford said the "vehicles were safe when they were introduced after rigorous testing during development, and remain so today after more than a decade on the road and billions of miles accumulated by customers around the globe."
The engineer said: "We'd raise our hands and be told, 'Don't be naysayers.' We got strange comments. It seemed the ship had sailed. After that, if you ask questions, you're accused of mutiny, so you put your head down and make it work. Good people tried to make it work. But you can't violate the laws of physics. It's a mechanical catastrophe."
He was referring to the DPS6 dual-clutch "PowerShift" transmission used in 2 million Focus and Fiesta cars sold this decade that is the subject of massive litigation and a federal criminal fraud probe.
"It was cheap to make and cheap to assemble," the engineer said, but because the DPS6 used "dry" clutch technology, it couldn't cool itself, ensuring failures in real-world use.
A Free Press investigation published in July found that Ford knew the DPS6 was defective before putting it on the market and later rejected a plan to stop using it.
After publication of the "Out of Gear" investigation, Ford insiders reached out to provide previously unseen company documents and firsthand accounts about the cars' development and the company's efforts to cover up the problems. The sources and documents describe a fearful atmosphere within Ford that led to silence and, in one case, downgrading the risk assessment of the DPS6 clutch and control unit "due to political reasons."
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Tag Archives: rural architecture
Standard designs of Eesti Maaehitusprojekt
Eesti Maaehitusprojekt (Estonian Rural Design), 1980s. MEA
Like previously introduced “EKE Projekt” the design institute “Eesti Maaehitusprojekt” (EMP, Estonian Rural Design) also prepared plans for rural settings, starting from 1951. Designs for this widespread bureau included dwellings alongside with greenhouses and sheds. A summer cottage with a shed and a greenhouse named “A85-8” by architects Ado and Niina Eigi was part of a larger collection from series “A-85” by various architects. This 25,5 m2 building with rectangular layout came with a storage-attached greenhouse. It consists mostly of a kitchen and a living room with sleeping area. There is also a small bedroom on the upper floor below the narrow angled roof. A possibilty is offered to build either a veranda or a terrace on the shorter side of the house. Family dwelling “Puravik” (named after Boletus mushrooms) from the same period was designed by architect Priit Kaljapulk in 1989. It has a fully built basement and consists of six rooms for living, in addition of such spaces as pantry and sauna. Other models designed at the same time were named in a similarly interesting style such as “Bruce”, “No-Spa” and “Programm”. The museum has collection of over 20 leaflets made for “EMP”. Text: Maria Pöppönen
Veel: 1980s, rural architecture
Standard designs of houses and summer cottages
EKE Projekt, 1970–1980. MEA
The “EKE Projekt” was founded by inter-collective-farm construction company in 1966; it was based on co-operative ownership that lasted for 1992. The bureau was focused on rural architecture. Here on four hand-outs are some of the buildings designed by “EKE Projekt” to help homeowners and cooperatives pick a house. The project’s plans varied – from dwellings to shops and root cellars.
One of the main ideas of the prefabricated cabin Raul was to be easily built (engineer Rein Randväli). Known for its triangular structure, this small building had two levels: lower of which included living room, kitchenette and a toilet, and a small loft as the second floor. The family house and shop Raja-3 (architect Ants Mellik) had two functions combined. On the plan, the shop – along with the kitchen, family room, and garage – were situated on the ground floor, whereas the basement was used for storage space, sauna and utility rooms and the upper floor for bedrooms. Standard project for the one-family dwelling Ants-5 with five rooms comes from a rather popular series in the 1980s (designed by Ants Mellik). The façade of the house was covered by a combination of silicate and wooden lining. Ants-5 had various models, which differed – for example – by the structures of their basements. The vegetable cellar for one-family building (Toomas Lukk, Ants Mellik and Jaan Mõttus) was designed to be partially underground. This cement built cellar came in five variable sizes, smaller models meant for families to use and larger to store root vegetables also for sale. The roof could be covered with humus soil or grass. There are about 100 of these hand-outs of designs made in “EKE Projekt” in the museum collection. Text: Maria Pöppönen
Veel: 1970s, 1980s, rural architecture
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Økonomi og ledelse, diverse
Limits to Scarcity
Lyla Mehta
Forlag Taylor and Francis
Emne Economics; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Sustainability
Andre formater / språk
E-Bok Nedlastbar Engelsk
Om Limits to Scarcity
Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact of our lives - be it of housing, food, water or oil. But has the conception of scarcity been politicized, naturalized, and universalized in academic and policy debates? Has overhasty recourse to scarcity evoked a standard set of market, institutional and technological solutions which have blocked out political contestations, overlooking access as a legitimate focus for academic debates as well as policies and interventions?Theoretical and empirical chapters by leading academics and scholar-activists grapple with these issues by questioning scarcity's taken-for-granted nature. They examine scarcity debates across three of the most important resources - food, water and energy - and their implications for theory, institutional arrangements, policy responses and innovation systems. The book looks at how scarcity has emerged as a totalizing discourse in both the North and South. The 'scare' of scarcity has led to scarcity emerging as a political strategy for powerful groups. Aggregate numbers and physical quantities are trusted, while local knowledges and experiences of scarcity that identify problems more accurately and specifically are ignored. Science and technology are expected to provide 'solutions', but such expectations embody a multitude of unexamined assumptions about the nature of the 'problem', about the technologies and about the institutional arrangements put forward as a 'fix.' Through this examination the authors demonstrate that scarcity is not a natural condition: the problem lies in how we see scarcity and the ways in which it is socially generated.
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High Heels and Haystacks: Billionaires in Blue Jeans
By: Erin Nicholas
Narrated by: Summer Roberts, Tyler Donne
Series: Billionaires in Blue Jeans, Book 2
Narrated by: Summer Roberts,Tyler Donne
Diamonds and Dirt Roads
Billionaires in Blue Jeans, Book 1
Attorney Evan Stone knows every crazy stipulation in billionaire Rudy Carmichael’s will. After all, he wrote it. And he’s determined to make sure each one is fully met by Rudy’s triplet daughters. Even if that means dating the workaholic CEO, Ava. Or pretending to at least. And even if it means resisting the so-right-for-him-she’s-totally-wrong party girl, Cori. Cori’s only got three things on her to do list from her dad: move to Bliss, Kansas; run his pie shop with her sisters for a year; no dating - for six months....
Just Right: Just Everyday Heroes
Day Shift Series, Book 1
Narrated by: Karen White
He's a better-than-a-Boy-Scout, trauma surgeon extraordinaire. Who just punched a patient in the nose. She's the director of the ER. And is now in charge of keeping her star surgeon in line until his suspension is over. First order of business is prying his perfect ass off the bar stool...and keeping her huge crush on him under control. Except he refuses to move until she agrees to - and then loses - a bet for 48 hours of her undivided attention.
Cuffed
The Everyday Heroes Series, Book 1
By: K. Bromberg
Narrated by: Joe Arden, Maxine Mitchell
Grant Malone is not the reason I moved back to Sunnyville - at least that’s what I tell myself. Yet, those parting words I said to him back in third grade ring in my ears every time a towns-person brings up one of the Malone boys. I thought time had healed my wounds. I was wrong. Nothing could have prepared me for how I felt when I finally saw him again. Twenty years does a lot to turn a boy into a man. One who hits all my buttons - sexy, funny, attractive, and a police officer.
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Charming Hannah
By: Kristen Proby
Narrated by: Morais Almeida, Patrick Garrett
Hannah Malone loves her new town. Despite living in Cunningham Falls for five years, she's still considered a "move in" by most of the locals, and that doesn't bother her in the least. She's the "new girl", and she hasn't regretted it for one day. This town is her sanctuary. Her home. The one place she finally fits in and feels safe after a lifetime of being different and running from the memories and a past so far away it can't haunt her anymore.
Loved it.
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Going Down Easy
Boys of the Big Easy Series, Book 1
Narrated by: Ryan West
As far as flings go, single dad Gabe Trahan is pretty sure that Addison Sloan is his best bet. Once a month, Addison comes to New Orleans and then…It. Is. On. Until Addison returns to New York, it’s just hot, no-strings-attached sex. And beignets. And jazz. But lately for Gabe, it isn’t nearly enough. Sure, maybe Addison’s gotten a bit hooked on Gabe. After all, who can resist a guy who’s so sexy, so charming, and so…available? But maybe he’s too available for her right now. Addison’s just moved to New Orleans. Plus, Gabe doesn't know her secret.
By: Sarina Bowen, Elle Kennedy
Narrated by: Teddy Hamilton, Tanya Eby
Hosting her brother's wedding for an MVP guest list is the challenge of Jess Canning's life. Already the family screw-up, she can't afford to fail. And nobody (nobody!) can learn of the colossal mistake she made with the best man during a weak moment last spring. It was wrong, and there will not be a repeat. Absolutely not. Even if he is the sexiest thing on two legs.
Totally hilarious
By Debra McDonald on 21-05-17
A boss-employee romance...with a twist
Only three things stand between Ava Carmichael and her $12 billion inheritance:
A year of living in Bliss, Kansas.
A relationship that lasts six consecutive months.
A pie.
Ava has run a multibillion-dollar company, negotiated with shark investors, and hobnobbed with business royalty, but she’s about to be defeated by her inability to turn sugar, flour, and apple pie filling into something edible.
Conveniently, the owner of the diner next door, Parker Blake, is magic in the kitchen. And he technically works for her. So she can make him teach her to bake. And hey, if everyone assumes they’re heating up more than the oven during their time in the kitchen...well, that’s called multitasking.
Parker Blake likes his women the way he likes his coffee: not in his diner. But gorgeous, strong-willed, type-A Ava clearly isn’t going to stop messing up his kitchen - or his simple, stress-free small-town life - until the conditions of her daddy’s will are met. So, sure, he’ll teach his “boss” to bake.
But once the kitchen door closes, it’s pretty clear who’s really in charge.
©2018 Erin Nicholas (P)2018 Erin Nicholas
Dovis
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predictable but fun
took a while to get used to the male reader. I do t normally like paired reading. I find it quite jarring. but once I was used to it, it was fine.
Wi reader
lets make some Pie!
what happens when a set in his way small town diner owner runs into a big city Powerhouse woman who needs to learn how to bake a pie? lots of Sparks, lots of humor ,lots of heat. throw in to that a deeper understanding of what makes each one tick and you have a fabulous book
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John Ransom's Diary
By: John Ransom
Narrated by: David Thorn
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Celebrities
This book is an extraordinary day-to-day documentary of the Civil War's most infamous Confederate prison, Camp Sumter, better known as Andersonville.
Here 13,000 wretched Union prisoners died within barely 14 months, from starvation, scurvy, and other diseases that spread through the camp. There was little shelter but makeshift tents; little in the way of blankets, warm clothing, or even shoes; and a scarcity of food and fresh water. Often the men were forced to sleep on the muddy ground in very crowded conditions.
While the deplorable conditions bear witness to man's inhumanity to man, they also are witness to one man's undaunted spirit to survive to tell the dreadful tale.
The narrative in the diary reflects John Ransom's attitudes, changing from the moody early staccato sentences when he is first captured, to resignation, and eventually to cheerful prose when the war draws to a close.
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John Ransom's Diary - A Great Listen
This book was well read and was an easy listen. I had seen the TV Movie "Andersonville" and liked it, so I thought I would try out this book. This book gives far more detail into what life was like at Andersonville and also as a POW in the south during the Civil War.
Piotr Tyminski
Worth every penny.
No mumbling, no artificial stuff. No grade B movies heroes waving Yankee flag. Just the real thing. As if I was there myself. Get it.
Worthwhile
This is a moving story of an admirable character in the most horrifying circumstances imaginable. The fact that this diary exists at all is incredible and shows the determination of the author to get his story told. I found this to be a good complement to Shelby Foote's monumental three volume work which does not cover this aspect. It is worthwhile sticking with it to the end in spite of the continual unpleasantness of many parts.
Parola138
I expected less
I didn't expect much from this, being that it's so old. I also expected it to be written in an overly-verbose way. I was wrong on all counts. It's very blunt and to the point. No lollygagging. It really puts you in the stockade with the prisoners. I'm sure not all of it is true, because obviouslly you wouldn't write a diary about escaping from prison while you're in prison, but it's a good book. Not boring at all.
Prisoner of War - A worst case scenario
The Ransom Diary should be considered an historic treasure in its chronicle of suffering and death at Andersonville during the American Civil War. David Thorn gives a great feel to John Ransom in his narration of the story. The story hides nothing, recounting raids among prisoners themselves to take what they can from those too weak to resist, the struggle to exist when nothing is given to exist on, and the humanity of others in the least likely of places. A sobering account of a worst case scenario in prison life during the Civil War.
For anyone who likes Civil War history, this is a great listen. You get to hear what daily life within Andersonville Prison was truly like. John Ransom captures the day to day struggles for the near year he spent here. The fact that he was able to survive the horrific conditions in this prison is proof of his strength of spirit. The only change I would have made would have been to have a younger man read the book - John Ransom is 20 - 21 when he is writing this diary but the narrator's voice is of a man seeming more than twice this age, which makes the listener forget just how young this man truly was while going through these awful conditions.
An incredibly moving piece of nonfiction that takes the glory and swashbuckling out of war and underscores Sherman's 'war is hell' view. Like the monument at Andersonville, a tribute to all POWs.
Authentic History
This is a unique and wonderful chronicle of man at his best and his worst. Ransom is such an honest and admirable voice. Andersonville is a notable stain on human history, but, just as in the German concentration camps, out of it sprang some reasons for hope in the indomitable spirit of some of the victims. You need to listen to this journal. And you need to think about it. It was a gift and miracle that this record was kept in the first place and equally remarkable that it was preserved. Thank heavens it was.
And it's an compelling story. No dry or disinteresting history here. You are drawn easily into Ransom's ordeal and cannot help but be touched by his humanity and hope and his gratitude for those around him who made his survival possible.
paul j boyd
buy this book. only other book like it is,"one day in the life of ivan denisovitch". shows the inhumanity of man and of the humanity of man..must read for all. you will not be dissapointed.
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Trooper #4
By: Noah Chinn
Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin-Creel
Categories: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Horror
It's the end of the world, but not as we know it. A woman wakes up in a motel on the outskirts of a remote Oregon city with no memory of who she is, a gun at her bedside, and a state trooper uniform. As she explores the world outside the motel it seems that civilization has come to an abrupt end, and whatever caused it is still out there, looking for the survivors.
That's bad. But it might also be the most normal thing that happens to her all week.
©2013 Noah Chinn (P)2014 Celeritas Audio LLC
Deadmistress
Somebody Tell Aunt Tillie We're in Trouble!
Mr Peter Geran
Started well but then ....
Would you try another book written by Noah Chinn or narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel?
I would have a look certainly
Was Trooper #4 worth the listening time?
Hmm, not really
It started so well and was really promising but after halfway I felt it got a bit lost in itself and I started to wane. The main character is engaging but the rest, well they were instantly forgettable for me.
Good narration, fresh approach to the genre
What did you love best about Trooper #4?
I enjoyed the narration, especially the different voices of this particular narrator. It was a different type of post apocalyptic story, which was refreshing.
UZI, FLOOZY, JACUZZI NFR Sign...Love it!
I really like this audiobook. It's a different take on the apocalypse and zombies or moaners, which was neat but the narration took it over the top to great! I like the way the story started with Felice having amnesia. It seemed everyone had it. It goes through her thought process of who, what, and where she is. She's a police officer so she gets into her patrol car and gets to a place named Fort Rock where she finds a kid beside the road who also has amnesia and determines that Mikey is a good name for him. She takes him with her and they begin their trek..
She's packing a gun and a Gideon. Over the radio she picks up a signal from somewhere, from someone known only by the name Uri so her aim is to get there safely with Mikey in tow. Wherever 'there' is. Her and Mikey take off for Haven and it becomes a perilous, but in a way, an exciting journey. Finally, she meets up with Agent Groves along with some other fun characters who are able to explain a few things to her about what's happening. I love the quips throughout the story. It adds a little lightheartedness to the seriousness of their situation along with some great twists.
Overall, I love the spin on the apocalypse and the story is hard to stop listening to. There is something very unique it. About halfway through I had to force myself to turn it off last night. Overall, I would definitely recommend this one. It has a lot of appeal. This segues me to the narration.
Barbara Benjamin-Creel does a fantastic job narrating this audiobook. I enjoyed a different setting for her this time as it shows her versatility as a skilled voice actor. I seriously loved her in this role. Couple that with her smooth voice and perfect inflections and boom, this a great listen. Nice work from both author and narrator.
Audiobook received for an unbiased review.
AlasKat
Excellent narration
What made the experience of listening to Trooper #4 the most enjoyable?
The plot is gripping and engaging, and I enjoyed the ending. With a great blend of themes and elements, the story will carry you through to the fun of a flipped story that keeps the listener guessing.
What does Barbara Benjamin-Creel bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?
The narration is restrained and expertly paced. The story is conveyed through subtle changes in tone and inflection that suggests character, temperament, and state of mind. For the avid reader, audio performance is a convenience and an enhancement, especially in the case of this book.This one should not be missed!
K. April Holgate
Very interesting read
I did not know what to expect coming into this book. It was a surprisingly interesting listen. The story starts out slow but really picks up and keeps you on edge as it progresses.
What other book might you compare Trooper #4 to and why?
It is more like the TV show The Walking Dead, very Dystopian and zombie heavy. There are a lot of great twists and turns that easily keep a reader enthralled.
What about Barbara Benjamin-Creel’s performance did you like?
Awesome read, I loved her pace and tone. She has a terrific rasp to her voice that helps bring the main character to life. Her energy throughout the read makes the book move at a really steady read. I will definitely be looking for more of her reads.
Deedra
A woman wakes up,she doesn't know who she is. This book was a very interesting.To say more on it,would give it away.I enjoyed it very much.Barbara-Creel narrated the story brilliantly!
I was gifted a copy through Audioblast for an honest review.
Barks Books
Unique and well read
A woman awakens with a gun and a name badge and no memory of who the heck she was before this moment. She’s adaptable though, assumes the name Felice, and sets off to see what’s up.
What’s up isn’t anything good. Much of the world seems to have been burned to ashes and there are “screaming meemies” lurking about ready to suck the life out of you. Felice manages to find some food and a young boy who is also apparently suffering from amnesia. She takes it upon herself to protect him and to get to know him. I loved her then. How could you not?
So, you may be thinking this is just another post-apocalypse zombie-ish filled tale. Well, it is and it definitely is NOT. I know this makes no sense whatsoever but if I go into any sort of plot detail I’ll ruin it all for you and I’m not going to do that. I’ll only say that things take a unique turn and then another and though you may be confused here and there (or maybe that was just me) it all comes together in the end.
I love character focused books and Trooper #4 features a tough, smart and tenacious lead in Felice. She’s thrown into a confusing as hell situation and brings you right along with her as she tries to unravel everything that’s going on around her. She doesn’t sit around waiting for someone to save her or boo hoo about her situation. She digs in and figures things out on her own. She also has a snarky side which made me love her even more.
When someone gets overly complicated to show off how smart they may be she:
“Tuned out the techno babble. Really, who needed it?”
And, this description? Tell me you’ve never thought something similar about someone? (If not, you’re a nicer person than I’ll ever be!)
“The smirk on her face. The kind you wanted to smack off with sandpaper.”
Again, how could I not love her?
I listened to this book as unabridged audio and highly recommend it if you like a strong lead, twists, suspense and can deal with some plot confusion that gets cleared up. There’s nothing worse than a book that wraps up and leaves you confused, right? This isn’t that book. The story was expertly narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel . She has an almost musical voice that pulled me into the story from the very first scene. She does a beautiful job with Felice and the various other characters. I always knew who was who and she brought the scenes to life, something many a narrator fails to do, adding a depth to the story.
I can easily recommend listening to Trooper #4 if you’re looking for something different.
An interesting amnesiac view of the apocalypse
Would you consider the audio edition of Trooper #4 to be better than the print version?
I don't have the print version to compare with, but considering the great job the narrator did I would assume so.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Trooper #4?
The most memorable moments for me were the scenes with the people trying to get by in the new world the way it's been running.
Which scene was your favorite?
I actually really liked the beginning, which probably has a lot more to do with the narration than the story itself, where the protagonist is trying to piece together what's going on and finds a child who's very much in the same state.
Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
I received the code for this in exchange for an honest review. It was quite a satisfactory listen and I appreciated the new perspective (at least to me), that the author placed on the usual apocalyptic setting.
Ricardo Muniz
Great Book, Great Narration!
Where does Trooper #4 rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
I've listen to over 100 audio books from sources other then audible and this is in my top ten easily! The Story alone would be a top ten but the narration really put it over the top.
Which character – as performed by Barbara Benjamin-Creel – was your favorite?
T. Felice hands down, her timing on her lines were perfect.
Michael Oberhardt
Silent Hell
What a fantastic story! Every so often, I come across a pretty unique and entertaining tale on audiobook, one where an author seems to have a new-ish idea. Sure, I love genre novels that really are just the authors take on a well trod story, but occasionally it is great to stumble across a gem like this.
Initially, the story started off with a tale that was somewhat reminiscent of the world of Silent Hill. Interspersed among the main tale are dream sequences of another story, which you can't see any correlation with the main thread. At the end it all comes together, and all makes sense. It is such a fun, intricate, and often dark novel.
The lead character's personal voice was great, and there were some pretty humorous thoughts the reader had access to (made me chuckle more than once). The narration was right on the money.
I look forward to more books by the author.
Alfred Bulltop Stormalong
Apocalyptic Zagging
Would you recommend this book to a friend? Why or why not?
Yes. I would recommend this book to my friends who are literate fans of the post-apocalyptic genre.
Would you be willing to try another book from Noah Chinn? Why or why not?
Possibly. The plot uses a clever means of squeezing more life from a fairly well-worn genre. The internal monologues for the main character were entertaining and well read.
The main character's internal monologues have an authentic self-deprecating playful feeling to them... the kind of verve that pulls a character off the page and into the room with you.
Could you see Trooper #4 being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?
Possibly a movie of the week or an installment on an anthology show.
This was my first audiobook and it was entertaining.
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The Florida Highway Patrol has cited 65-year-old Barbara Markowski for crashing into a Spring Hill restaurant, injuring several people. (Spectrum News File Photo)
Woman, 65, Cited for Crashing Into Spring Hill Beef O'Brady's
By Spectrum News Staff Hernando County
PUBLISHED 12:55 PM ET Feb. 08, 2019 PUBLISHED February 8, 2019 @12:55 PM
SPRING HILL, Fla. — The Florida Highway Patrol has cited 65-year-old Barbara Markowski for crashing into a Spring Hill restaurant, injuring several people.
Elderly woman cited for Beef O'Brady's crash
Barbara Markowski, 65, cited for usafe/improper equipment
FHP determined brakes on vehicle were not working
The crash occurred on Tuesday, February 5, at the Beef O'Brady's located at 14387 Spring Hill Drive.
Troopers said the brakes of Markowski's Saturn Ion were not working when it crashed into the front of the restaurant, striking five patrons.
The victims have been identified as Kristine Boggs, 65, Stephen Grecco, 84, John Bost, 86, Jovite Palardis, and Nancy Nelson, 68.
All five victims were transported to area hospitals.
Before crashing into the Beef O'Brady's, troopers said Markowski lost control of her vehicle on Spring Hill Drive, traveled over the center median, across the westbound lanes, traveled off the roadway, over a flower bed, side-swiped a vehicle that was exiting the parking lot, and then hit a parked vehicle as it made its way through the parking lot toward the restaurant.
Markowski was cited for unsafe/improper equipment.
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A data center is a facility that holds all the necessary hardware to store, manage and deal with hundreds of thousands of bits of all kinds of company data, corporate email accounts and their respective servers, financial reports and customer sheets, pictures or videos we upload to Facebook, and all of the different software alternatives which a big company uses as platform.
One of Google’s data centers: in each slot are stored terabytes of information / Image: Google’s Amazing Floating Data Centers (YouTube)
As logic dictates, the bigger the company is, the bigger the volume of data to manage, although we have to consider other aspects such as the core of each company (we can’t compare a technological company to one in the service sector), the data management philosophy (whether they opted to move their data infrastructure to the cloud or not), or if they have an international presence, etc.
In any case, the globalization of the economy, the expansion of multinational companies around the world and the “always on” trend that propelled Internet democratization, have meant an exponential rise in data (as an illustration, 4.1 million searches are performed on Google every minute, according to Intel figures), that triggered the creation of giant data centers to deal efficiently with the enormous quantity of information that big companies get every day.
Obviously, data centers must follow strict security and maintenance protocols, as they are responsible for much of the daily operations of hundreds of companies around the world. A SAP data center must have enough energy generators to pull 29 MW of power (enough to supply a city with a population of around 50,000) and the facilities must keep the temperature under 26 degrees Celsius to keep the hardware from overheating. Not to mention the responsibility for security personnel, security cameras and other protocols to avoid data theft or data loss (for instance, with regard to the previously mentioned SAP example, more than ten thousand smoke detectors are required in each data center).
Which are the biggest data centers in the world? Here are some of the most outstanding.
Range Technology Development (Langfang, China)
It is Asia’s biggest data center and takes up a surface of 610,000 square meters (in comparison, the Pentagon is 600,000 square meters). Built in collaboration with IBM, it is one of the most advanced cloud based data centers in the world, which means the data is stored physically in the complex as well as replicated and secured in the cloud (and, as such, readily accessible from any other point in the world).
Microsoft Chicago (Northlake, Illinois)
Most of you probably use Skype, Office, Outlook or Xbox Live in your daily routines. All of these services belong to Microsoft and have millions of active users distributed all around the world. One of the biggest Microsoft data centers supporting a good part of their active user base is located near Chicago. It takes up more than 60,000 square meters and is powered entirely by wind generators. It houses more than 220,000 servers). More than 500 million US dollars were invested in its construction (source: Microsoft).
Super NAP (Las Vegas, Nevada)
Located in Las Vegas, this over 110,000 square meter complex holds 9 data centers. SuperNAP’s differentiator is its dependence to renewable energy, thanks to corporate social responsibility initiatives of big companies. In fact, Swift, the company behind these facilities, claims to be “the best regarded by their customers” in the data center space.
SuperNAP data center in Las Vegas / Image: Supernap.com
Not to be confused with SuperNAP data center in Tahoe-Reno, also in Nevada and also a Swift property. This new installation is in its early phases of development. It is also a very ambitious project aimed to hold seven data centers in an area of 603,000 square meters.
Biggest unknowns
Although big companies take a proud stand sharing huge data center figures, there are other companies that take a much more discreet approach and keep most of this information private. Companies such as Google or Facebook (owner of both Instagram and WhatsApp) in which their main line of business revolves around data storage and management, have never shared specific figures about their data centers. Just very specific facts related to security, efficiency and environment-friendly features. This keeps a very low profile on infrastructure and lowers possibilities of attacks or hacking attempts.
Even so, taking into account the millions of requests per minute (just think about the sheer quantity of pictures, comments and conversations that are produced in any of these social networks), it shouldn’t be a surprise if their data centers are even bigger than some of the listed above in this article.
What about Europe?
The biggest data center in Europe is located in Newport (Wales) and belongs to NGD (New Generation Data). It has an area of 70,000 square meters and is completely powered by renewable energy.
Telefónica has its own big Data Center in Alcalá de Henares, in the Madrid area. Although well short of the figures in terms of area of the North American data centers, it is the first European facility to ever get a TIER IV Gold certification, the technical term that distinguishes the most sophisticated data centers in the industry. A mark so high that, by definition, a TIER IV Gold data center can’t be offline for more than 26 minutes each year. According to Telefónica, their customers are mostly IBEX 35 companies and government agencies.
Telefónica’s data center comprises an area of about 65,700 square meters and needs a power supply equivalent of a city with a population of 40,000.
Also with a TIER IV Gold certificate, BBVA’s Tres Cantos II data center, located in Tres Cantos Madrid. With over 20,000 square meters, their main focus is security. A very logical approach, taking into account that this is a financial services multinational. It has multiple layers of redundancy, which guarantees uninterrupted service and shields itself from possible attacks.
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Police have seized a loaded gun which was found in the House of Fraser department store loos.
West Midlands Police confirmed the firearm was discovered in a toilet roll holder in the Corporation Street store.
It was found on Monday evening and a spokesman for the police said: “The gun has been made safe and is being forensically examined.”
Officers are studying CCTV as part of the inquiry. The department store is yet to comment.
In a statement, the force said : “Detectives are investigating after a gun was found concealed in public toilets in a Birmingham department store on Corporation Street just before 7pm on Monday January 2.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact officers on 101.
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ArchiMate Gives Business Leaders and Architects a Common Language to Describe How the Enterprise Works
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect sponsored podcast on ArchiMate and enterprise architecture recorded live at The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle.
Listen to the podcast. Find it on iTunes/iPod and Podcast.com. Download the transcript. Sponsor: The Open Group.
Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re listening to BriefingsDirect.
Today, we present a sponsored podcast discussion coming to you from The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle the week of Feb. 1, 2010.
We're now going to look at a way of conceptualizing, modeling, and controlling enterprise architecture (EA) using ArchiMate. We are going to talk with an expert on this, Dr. Harmen van den Berg. He is a partner and co-founder at BiZZdesign. Welcome to the show.
Dr. Harmen van den Berg: Thank you.
Gardner: I really enjoyed your presentation, getting into ArchiMate in ways that you can get a visualization control and even work beyond some of the confines of architecture into some of the business benefits. For the benefit of our audience, could you tell us a little bit about the history of ArchiMate. How did it come about?
Van den Berg: ArchiMate is a standard that was developed in the Netherlands by a number of companies and research institutes. They developed it, because there was a lack of a language for describing EA. After it was completed, they offered it to The Open Group as a standard.
Gardner: What is the problem that it solves?
Van den Berg: The problem that it solves is that you need a language to express yourself, just like normal communication. If you want to talk about the enterprise and the important assets in the enterprise, the language supports that conversation.
Gardner: We are talking about more and more angles on this conversation, now that we talk about cloud computing and hybrid computing. It seems as if the complexity of EA and the ability to bring in the business side, provide them with a sense of trust in the IT department, and allow the IT department to better understand the requirements of the business, all need a new language. Do you think it can live up to that?
Van den Berg: Yes, because if you look at other language, like UML, which is for system development and is a very detailed language, it only covers a very limited part of the complete enterprise. ArchiMate is focused on giving you a language for describing the complete enterprise, from all different angles, not on a detailed level, but on a more global level, which is understandable to the business as well.
Gardner: So more stakeholders can become involved with something like ArchiMate. I guess that's an important benefit here.
Van den Berg: Yes, because the language is not focused only on IT, but on the business as well and on all kinds of stakeholders in your organization.
Gardner: How would someone get started, if they were interested in using ArchiMate to solve some of these problems? What is the typical way in which this becomes actually pragmatic and useful?
Van den Berg: The easiest way is just to start describing your enterprise in terms of ArchiMate. The language forces you to describe it on a certain global level, which gives you direct insight in the coherence within your enterprise.
Gardner: So, this allows you to get a meta-view of processes and assets that are fundamentally in IT, but have implication for and reverberate around the business.
Don't have to start in IT
Van den Berg: You don't have to start in IT. You can just start at the business side. What are products? What are services? And, how are they supported by IT?" That's a very useful way to start, not from the IT side, but from the business side.
Gardner: Are there certain benefits or capabilities in ArchiMate that would, in fact, allow it to do a good job at defining and capturing what goes on across an extended enterprise, perhaps hybrid sourcing or multiple sourcing of business processes and services?
Van den Berg: It's often used, for example, when you have an outsourcing project to describe not only your internal affairs, but also your relation with other companies and other organizations.
Gardner: What are some next steps with ArchiMate within The Open Group as a standard? Tell us what it might be maturing into or what some of the future steps are.
Van den Berg: The future steps are to align it more with TOGAF, which is the process for EA, and also extending it to cover more elements that are useful to describe an EA.
It's often used, for example, when you have an outsourcing project to describe not only your internal affairs, but also your relation with other companies and other organizations.
Gardner: And for those folks who would like to learn more about ArchiMate and how to get this very interesting view of their processes, business activities, and IT architecture variables where would you go?
Van den Berg: The best place to go is The Open Group website. There is a section on ArchiMate and it gives you all the information.
Gardner: We've been talking about ArchiMate and how IT architecture and Enterprise Architecture can come together, but in the confines of a structured language. We've been joined by Dr. Harmen van den Berg, partner and co-founder at BiZZdesign. Thank you.
Van den Berg: Thank you.
Gardner: This sponsored podcast discussion is coming to you from The Open Group's Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle, the week of Feb. 1, 2010.
This is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions. You've been listening to a BriefingsDirect podcast. Thanks for joining, and come back next time.
Transcript of a BriefingsDirect sponsored podcast on ArchiMate and enterprise architecture recorded live at The Open Group’s Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference in Seattle. Copyright Interarbor Solutions, LLC, 2005-2010. All rights reserved.
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by J. Lewis-Barned
Ufipa Plateau
Ufipa was a poor, and comparatively backward, district. In 1957 we collected a mere 15,000 pounds sterling in Personal, house and Poll Tax and sundry other sums in Market Cess, cattle slaughter fees and Court fees, etc. 275 vehicles were licensed and 4,450 bicycles! A little progress was made with road improvements.
Ufipa was rich in soil and climate and potentially could have become much wealthier. In spite of low productivity, the Veterinary Officer reported 20,648 pounds sterling worth of Hides and Skins, Butter, Ghee and Cattle exported and the Agricultural Department 122,378 pounds sterling of produce likewise including coffee and tobacco.
Unskilled labour was paid at the rate of shs 26/- to shs 40/- a month and a census revealed a population of 130,000 Africans, 82 coloureds, 512 Arabs (mostly traders), 100 Indians and 130 Europeans of whom 21 were officials and their wives.
Of all these just 138 were convicted of criminal offences in the District court - 38 more than in 1956, and mostly the cases were for failing to pay poll tax, petty theft and traffic offences.
On reflection, 33 traffic offences for 275 vehicles does look to be heavy, but I think that this was the year that we had for the first time a gazetted British Police Officer and I remember that there was something of a blitzkrieg on road safety and the general state of the Indian lorries. I was myself lucky not to be caught with no hand-brake.
Still the Administration had not been idle that year and we boasted that we had completed no less than fifteen new buildings, inclding a new primary school and teachers' house and several dispensaries.
I had many safaris in the District, usually about one a month lasting about a week and it was great to leave my office desk and travel round the countryside, hearing local Courts appeals, checking Local Authority Accounts, visiting the Mission Stations, dealing with applications for tax exemption, land matters, buildings, and holding meetings to hear of local problems and disseminate Government Policy.
Sadly, the old Chief died in early 1957 following a lengthy safari and meetings were held to elect a new one; political activity increased in the District and we were required to supervise local Council elections and alas! the stirrings of organised democracy took root.
Because practically everyone was illiterate and only about one in nine children were receiving primary school education even then, local Council elections were held in a fairly simple way. The electors were summoned to appear and the candidates lined up whereupon on the word "Go!" the electors strung themselves out behind each candidate in a long queue.
They were thereupon counted and the candidate with the largest number behind him was declared duly elected. The Africans thought it all great fun though I doubt if they had much idea what it was all about since they already had their own traditional form of representation and formally elected councillors was something new.
Still we were making progress. "Beef and beer" payments for road labourers was abolished in favour of regular wages and the District Annual report states baldly that "some political activity in connection with compulsory labour occurred. The trouble is still that the incentive to work is not such as to persuade the African to look for it and until he is made to realise the benefits of a higher standard of living, the position will remain unchanged." This of course referred to the Local Authority right to recruit labour for the roads or essential services for a month in any one year, under the Compulsory Labour (Essential Public Works) Order made under the Native Authority Ordinances.
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Local Knowledge: Sambandha Restaurant
Nepalese dumplings, smoky chow mein and elaborate khaja sets that come with 10 small dishes you mix together to create the most textural salad you’ll ever eat.
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by Nicholas Jordan
The first thing we notice is a khaja set, a collection of snacks, 10 in total, arranged in neat little piles on one dish. The khaja looks like a thali, (literally “platter” in India and Southeast Asia, but often used to described a meal made up of small bowls), but because Sambandha serves Nepalese food, it’s a whole different experience.
Take the rice for example. Instead of a pile, it's steamed, beaten and dried and then turned into a wafer-thin flake. It has a surprising brittle crunch. It’s at the centre of the khaja, and on top of it is bara, a doughy and savoury chickpea pancake, and a single spiced boiled egg. The waiter then brings over more dishes: there are fried soybeans tossed in vinegar; potatoes coated in pickle sauce; fried goat organs with crisped onion shards and buffalo hunks fried in a spicy gravy. Finally, there are two kinds of fried beans; sautéed spinach and, to the side, a tart bamboo shoot and potato soup.
David Bragg, who co-owns it along with Manoj Gurung and Suroj Shrestha, instructs us to mix these 10 dishes together, so we mash the egg, break the bara and messily stir everything into and on top of each other. The result? The most texturally complex thing we’ve ever eaten; in almost every mouthful you can feel the chew of the goat, the snap of the flattened rice and the crunch of the soybeans. The potatoes add softness and the beans some bite.
While Bragg now talks about it with great enthusiasm, just eight years ago he didn’t even know what khaja was, or the other nuances of Nepalese food. Back then both he and Gurung were working at Olympic Park; Bragg was working in staging (building stages) and Gurung was working as a chef. They both finished their shifts late at night and ended up in a nearby pub where their friendship started. Eventually Gurung told Bragg of his dream to open a restaurant and invited Bragg to his home to taste his cooking. “That’s how it slowly came together,” Bragg says.
They opened Sambandha in Auburn in Sydney’s west in 2013 to little fanfare. “The only other Nepalese restaurant in the area burnt down a few months after we opened – that got our foot in the door. The joke at the time was that we started the fire,” laughs Bragg.
Today it’s recognised as one of the best Nepalese eateries in Sydney.
The khaja set is the most elaborate option, the dish Nepalese people order when they’re feeling a bit nostalgic or they have something to celebrate. The usual lunch trade is simpler: fried or steamed momos (dumplings with spiced chicken centres); smoky chow mein with buffalo, chicken, egg or all the above (most locals will splash tomato sauce or sriracha on top); or thukpa, a basic and hearty Tibetan-influenced chicken noodle soup.
The back-street cafe, which is no wider than a suburban swimming pool, has a short menu of booze and drinking foods. If you want to replicate a Kathmandu-bar experience, ask for a bottle of Nepalese Ice or a Mustang Lager and progressively snack on bhatmas sadeko (the crunchy soybeans served in the khaja), or sukuti-style goat (dried and spiced, it’s a bit like jerky).
“When I first went to a Nepalese restaurant, I had no idea what to order. I see the same thing when western people come here. They don't know what to order, they just get curry and rice because that's what they know. I now try to push them to try different options,” says Bragg.
That doesn’t happen too much though, as almost everyone who eats at Sambandha is Nepalese – something its three owners are very proud of.
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The Other American Dream: Social Mobility, Race and Opportunity
Social Mobility Memos
Richard V. Reeves Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Today, President Obama is marking the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington, led by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. The March on Washington was for jobs, as well as freedom – indeed for the freedom that a job brings. Civil rights still have to be defended. Jobs have to be created and fairly allocated. But the most pernicious racial divide today is in social mobility: in the opportunity gap between a child born white, and a child born black.
It is true, in one sense, that class now matters at least as much as race. Racial gaps in education, employment and wealth reflect the disproportionate representation of black families at the bottom of the income scale. But an urgent question remains: why, in 2013, is the income distribution so skewed by race?
One answer is that black rates of upward social mobility are lower. Black children are more likely to be born into poverty than white children; but they are also less likely to escape. More than half of black adults raised at the bottom of the income scale remain stuck there as adults, compared to a third of whites:
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Raj Chetty and his colleagues find that “rates of upward mobility are significantly lower in areas with a larger African-American population, such as the South”. Chetty argues that it is not race itself that is the causal factor, since he reports that whites living in the same areas also have lower mobility rates. But the children with narrower life chances in predominantly black areas are, by definition, predominantly black.
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Dozens of other factors bear on the racial mobility gap, including continued discrimination in the labor market. Much is made of the greater incarceration rates of black men. But research produced by the William T Grant Foundation suggests that, in terms of job search, “black men who have never been incarcerated fare no better in the job market than white men just out of prison”.
Even ‘assortative mating’ – the tendency of affluent, educated people to marry affluent, educated people – has a racial gap, with implications for the intergenerational inequalities. According to data from Vida Maralani, 84% of highly-educated white women marry a well-educated man, compared to 49% of highly-educated black women. (The impact of assortative mating on mobility is a theme we’re going to return to shortly – watch this space.)
My colleague Isabel Sawhill has adopted a simple, single metric for upward mobility: making it to the middle class by middle age. Almost two in three whites clear this hurdle, compared to just three out of ten blacks:
Note: Updated figures based on Figure 4 from “Pathways to the Middle Class,”
Sawhill, Winship, and Grannis (2012)
The Sawhill graph also shows measures of success for each preceding life stage. For example, success at adolescence requires graduating high school with a GPA of at least 2.5, without either getting pregnant or being arrested:
The black-white gap widens with each successive life stage, showing the cumulative effects of disadvantage – and the need to address the racial mobility gap at each and every critical moment.
Forty years ago, King’s dream was for blacks to achieve true equality with whites. The other American Dream is for every individual to have a fair chance of success. Now, they are the same dream: a nation of real opportunity for every child, of every color. We still have a long way to march.
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Brose expands its manufacturing competence in China
Guests from the world of politics and customer representatives took part in the festive opening of Brose's new site in Taicang.
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Automotive supplier Brose has opened a new plant in Taicang, China. Primarily for the Chinese market, the family-owned company manufactures products across its entire portfolio, including door systems, seat structures and motors there. What began in 2015 with a small operation in rented production halls in Taicang will grow to a total area of 73,000 square meters with the completion of the second construction phase at the end of 2019. Brose Taicang will then be the largest production facility of the mechatronics specialist in Asia. To this end, the family-owned company is investing around 180 million euros.
"The new location in Taicang will be one of the Brose Group's most important plants," emphasized Thomas Spangler, Chief Technology Officer, at the official opening in late November. "With digitized processes and the latest manufacturing methods, we are significantly increasing our manufacturing competence in Asia". For example, a modern production control system has been installed. It analyzes data from production and controls the entire manufacturing process, which increases product quality and minimizes scrap.
"The development in Taicang from a rental hall to one of our global lead plants is an example of the positive business development of the Brose Group in China and of our systematic implementation of modern production systems," Spangler explained. The company will employ 1,600 people at the site by 2024.
Wang Hongxing, member of the Taicang government, was pleased with the success story as well: "The automotive industry is one of the most important pillars of our economic growth. We believe that Brose's state-of-the-art plant will have a very positive impact on the future of the automotive sector in the region."
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AlphaSights’ Product Lead Brings Passion for the Craft to Her Leadership Role
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What’s AlphaSights? We like to think of the NYC-based company as an expert at finding experts. The company connects clients across a number of verticals with masters of their industries that can lend knowledge and insight into solving the specific challenges that clients are facing.
For a product manager at a company with such a distinctive offering, there’s a lot of room for improvisation.
“We’re in such a niche industry that’s still being defined, that there’s so much runway for product managers to have the creativity to define their own path,” said Head of Product Tricia Maia.
For Maia, carving her own lane at AlphaSights translates to how she manages projects, approaches her career as a whole, and manages her team. She chatted with us about her journey in the world of product and her approach to leading a team of employees that are spread across the globe.
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You’ve been working in product for over eight years now. What drew you to this type of work, and what drew you to the B2B services industry in particular?
I’ve worked in both B2B and B2C before. As much as I love the direct impact you can potentially have on users with even small enhancements in a consumer-oriented product, I’ve always gravitated to the complex commercial, technical, and user experience challenges of B2B. I’m particularly intrigued to help define what product means within a services context.
Most of the literature and community in product tends to focus on pure SaaS business models. However, best practices and strategies for teams working within a broader, service-oriented environment are not as common. Having our team build on and share how we approach product strategy, discovery, and development within this lens is an exciting opportunity. Specifically related to our industry, providing a service that essentially allows our customers to better understand the world and how we use technology to enable and accelerate these knowledge-sharing connections is fascinating.
You will approach problems and solutions very differently than someone else, and that’s the beauty of it.”
Tell us about your leadership style. What are some key aspects of how you manage your teams?
I’ve never associated myself with a particular leadership style; I believe more in situational leadership. It’s probably my natural tendency to be authentic and democratic, but there are times when I need to be more transformational, however challenging that may be. I want to empower people to build impactful products by creating an environment where they can thrive through autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Success for me means having an unequivocally driven, user-centric, accountable team whom I can learn from and vice versa, but who are also a key resource and support system to each other.
What do you do to stay involved in the broader product community?
I try to share my experiences as much as possible by attending or presenting at conferences and events, hosting meetups or writing. Although it’s generally harder to produce than consume content, it’s important to give back to the community and reflect independently on what you’ve learned every so often. Especially in tech, we need a diversity of skill sets, backgrounds, and perspectives to be shared to ensure we’re building broadly representative products.
How do you foster camaraderie on your team? Is there anything you facilitate that allows team members to bond?
We have a global product team, so fostering strong connections with one another is critical, not just for ourselves, but for the cohesiveness of the product we’re collectively building for our users. We’re fortunate enough to be able to see each other in-person every few months: whether it’s a NY-based PM or designer flying to London to carry out targeted user research with the team, or the whole group getting together for vision- and strategy-setting off-sites.
While these are nice perks, we have to make the most out of long-distance communication and remote meetings in between. We meet weekly as a product team to discuss work-related topics and learnings together as a group, but we usually kick-off meetings with a totally unrelated ice-breaker question so it’s not “all business.” Once a month, we also have a “virtual water cooler” video hangout where we talk about literally anything.
What advice would you give to someone pursuing a career working in product that you wish you knew early in your journey?
There is no one right way to “do” product. It’s an amorphous function that varies across industries and companies. Depending on the specific product and your own unique background, you will approach problems and solutions very differently than someone else, and that’s the beauty of it. We can all learn different methodologies, processes, frameworks, and philosophies from one another that, ideally, help us continuously grow in our craft.
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Everything You Thought You Knew About Metadata…
By Thad McIlroy
It's no surprise that there's a lot of confusion around metadata for books. It's complicated. If only they hadn't used the "M" word—metadata. It reeks of digital complexity. And then you read the standard definition: "Metadata is data about data." Gee, thanks. As if your eyes hadn't already glazed over.
Here's what metadata really is: It's all of the title information that used to reside just in your title catalog and your EDI (electronic data interchange) system, like Pubnet. Since online selling became tops for combined digital and physical books, the title information became paramount, as it's the only way publishers can guarantee online retailers list their books correctly.
To put it another way: Metadata is your book online.
Online, your customers can't grab a copy off the shelf, read the back cover blurb, and thumb through the pages to scan a selection of the text. That's all metadata now: The back cover becomes the title description. The advance reviews are carefully tagged for online. "About the author" is now a separate web page on Amazon.com. And that's the easy part!
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More challenging are, for example, making sure that the online preview doesn't waste precious pages on the prelims; that your author Brian Smith doesn't link by mistake to Brian W. Smith, author of My Husband's Love Child—a Novella; that the video shows up online; and many more concerns.
Basic metadata is pretty easy, but ONIX, the metadata standard, now defines more than 200 fields. And these days there's intermediate metadata, and then there's advanced.
Today we're going to test your skills: Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced.
You Think You're A Beginner
You've got the basics in hand—if you're in the U.K. you know they're called BIC Basic in the U.S., it's BISAC Core Data Elements. Did you know:
1. Metadata Matters
No matter what you might think, metadata matters. A lot. It won't make bad books sell well. But with literally millions of books for sale online, it makes a huge difference for those deserving titles that are slipping down your backlist, no longer carried in bricks and mortar stores, waiting to be discovered online.
Most people think about famous titles when they think about metadata. Like 50 Shades of Whatever. Perversely, metadata doesn't matter quite as much for books that feature the best metadata—new books and bestsellers. Readers are going to find those titles one way or another. But Pets and Heaven—What the Bible Says About Our Animal Friends could use some additional metadata to move up the "Pet Loss Grief" section of Amazon from its current position at No. 852,554 in books.
2. Know which metadata matters the most.
You've got to walk with metadata before you run. Metadata mastery takes time. Title and author are searched more often than publisher, subtitles more than the number of pages.
Different national organizations that oversee book metadata have different names for the most important metadata. The U.S.'s BISAC/BISG talks about the "Core Metadata Elements." There are 31 in all. Some are mainly important to resellers—like "Case Pack/Carton Quantity"—rather than to readers. BIC in the U.K. is more down-to-earth with its 11 BIC Basic elements. They're mostly what you would expect: title, price, pub data, ISBN, and so on.
Included in both lists is something you may not think of as metadata: the cover. Nielsen's metadata study, "The Link Between Metadata and Sales," released in early 2012, proved that the cover is in fact the most important metadata element. Sales for titles with all 11 elements, including the cover, were 473 percent higher than for titles missing the cover. No other metadata element comes close for sales impact. Covers still sell books.
3. There's a difference between findability and discoverability.
Discussions about the value of metadata move quickly to proclaim that metadata is essential to discoverability. Discoverability isn't defined: We're left with the vague sense suggested by the word's root "discover." Most people know that there are too many books and too much information, so the idea that it's challenging to find a book resonates. Certainly everyone who's part of the publishing supply chain, whether author, publisher or reseller, is well aware of the problem. They know that just because a book is good doesn't mean it will ever be found.
Metadata's first task is mere findability—and the distinction is important. For argument's sake let's assume that half of the books purchased or borrowed from libraries are searched for just by title or by author. Those books must be found, not discovered. It's the other half that will be discovered, whether by wandering through the stacks at the library or strolling the aisles of a bookstore (or the online equivalent).
Findability is the challenge of locating exactly what you're looking for (even if you have incomplete or inaccurate information about the book). Discoverability is the process by which a book appears in front of you at a point where you were not looking for that specific title (although you are looking for something in the same direction).
Metadata plays an important role in both of these tasks, although the role it plays is substantially different in each.
4. Metadata is your sacred duty.
These days most publishers are doing a pretty good job of assigning basic metadata to their new titles as they're published. You won't find many bestsellers missing a description and a sampling of the advance reviews. The book cover shows up loud and clear.
It's the backlist that's a mess.
The larger and wealthier publishers have mostly digitized their backlists, which afforded them an opportunity to refresh the basic metadata for those titles. It's the millions of print titles that have yet to be digitized that suffer most. These days I can't help noticing metadata when I'm ordering books online and I cringe at the mess of metadata afflicting most publisher's print backlists.
I understand that the ROI isn't certain. Fixing all that muddled metadata is a big task. But you owe it to the book. You owe it to your authors. Most of them don't know enough to complain. If a book is worth keeping in print it's worth maintaining the metadata via your regular ONIX feeds, particularly the cover image. It's your sacred duty as a publisher.
You Think You're Intermediate
Your company looks to you to make sure the metadata is accurate, not just on your site, but on Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google and more. Did you know:
1. A partner can relieve the pain of good metadata.
If at any point while reading this article you feel that your inner pinball machine just tilted and froze, it's time to look for a metadata partner. Potential partners offer services from basic to holding your hand, and their prices are thoroughly reasonable. You just need to find the right one for your scale and mission.
If you use a distributor for print or digital books, speak to that distributor. They probably can help you pin down accurate data. Meanwhile Bowker in the U.S. and Nielsen in the U.K. are each national agencies for book data. BookNet Canada fills the same role you know where.
If you're farming out your ebook conversions there's a pretty good chance that your vendor will also be able to help with metadata. They'll certainly have some names to recommend.
There are also companies in North America and the U.K. that live and die by the excellent quality of the book data they produce. Two companies that I've had good experiences with are Firebrand in the U.S. and BooksoniX in the U.K.
2. Different retailers support different metadata.
And they support it differently for self-publishers loading one title at a time versus larger publishers feeding data coded in ONIX format.
I watch the way Amazon, Apple, Barnes & Noble, Google and Kobo each handle metadata and I scratch my head. This is just data. It's based on a standard called ONIX. Why do they treat the subject categories differently? Why do they treat reviews differently? Goshdarnit, why can't they even respect the book's subtitle?
Sadly, when you reach intermediate status as a metadata technician you'll need to learn the idiosyncrasies of each online reseller's handling of the main metadata elements—if indeed they handle them at all. Keeping up with these changing idiosyncrasies is another reason to find an able partner.
My pet peeve is Amazon's handling of subtitles for self-published ebooks. Amazon insists they be included in the same data field following the title. For example "The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: the 34 days that decided the election: Playbook 2012 (POLITICO Inside Election 2012) (Kindle Single) [Kindle Edition]" They're then treated as part of the title, rather than their lesser role. It leads to all kinds of trouble in findability.
3. Foreign editions are a leading cause of chaos.
God created the world in a week, and soon thereafter publishers began treating the two largest English-speaking markets as completely separate. As a result, most upper-mid-list titles and higher find a home with a separate publisher in each country. The two national publishers rarely release the same book at the same time (unless it's Harry Potter). The price is set separately. Sometimes the subtitle changes. Even the title.
This arrangement made reasonably good sense in the world before the Internet. It doesn't make sense today. As I know publishers have no intention of discontinuing the practice, all that can be asked is that they think hard about the metadata. ONIX offers fields that define the situation. You must specify in which countries you hold rights and chase etailers that ignore your specification.
4. Enhanced metadata matters
As we point out in The Metadata Handbook the term "enhanced" when used with "metadata" is—like the term "basic"—also subject to variations from one national agency to the next. It's best just to think the term through logically. If basic metadata includes the descriptive elements, how can you enhance that "data?" We list several choices, some of them obvious:
● Tables of contents
● Author and contributor biographies and interviews
● Digital images beyond the cover image
● Video trailers and author interview on video
● Podcasts
One way to think of it is that basic metadata brings customers into the store while enhanced metadata closes the sale.
You think you're advanced.
You're in charge of data services for a mid-size publisher, or maybe larger. Metadata is a core responsibility, and yours alone. Did you know:
1. You need to get to work with ONIX 3
Metadata has a standard. It's called ONIX. Most publishers are not using any version of it. Those that use ONIX are usually using version 2.1, released in 2004. They're not yet using version 3.0, released in 2009.
Version 3.0 was established mainly because of the "need to improve the handling of digital products." Digital products are routinely 20 percent of publisher sales, but publishers are describing their products with an older metadata standard designed for print.
The publishers are not solely to blame. The prime culprits are the big online resellers, from Amazon to Sony. They're taking their own sweet time migrating to version 3.0.
Nonetheless, advanced metadata mavens need to get started creating ONIX 3 because it will soon be supported more widely and because it does make a difference for findability. It takes time to relearn ONIX, so now is the time to get started.
2. International metadata varies.
Publishing is by nature language-centric, and countries are dialect specific. American English is different than Canadian English and different than British English, and that's ignoring the regional dialects in each country. Authors have struggled with this for many years, but publishers always played to their home market. Those days have ended.
With the vast internationalization of the retailing of English books, publishers will soon see that their market is as much the millions of Chinese readers with English as a second language as it is the folks back home. At this stage it's a fine point, but soon publishers will look to language experts who know how to describe a book with a reduced and simplified vocabulary that plays as effectively for a native speaker as it does for the student in Serbia.
3. The book's web site should be the No. 1 source of metadata
If you have one of those authors who never bothered to build a web site, you've probably built one for them, or at least for their new book. The web designer you assigned to the task might be contracted to maintain it for a few months after the book is published. Afterwards the site will be abandoned. t will become a site that advertises how little the author and the publisher now care about the book and its readers.
But not to worry. Most people looking for the book will never see the site. Amazon's listing for the book will grab the top spot on Google and Bing, further solidifying Amazon's stranglehold on book retail.
That's all wrong. Because you don't control the content on Amazon. Amazon won't publish the full text of the rave review that sells a copy every time it's read. Amazon won't link to the author's articles and professional CV.
The book's web site should be at the top of the list whenever anyone searches for the book. If it's not, you're doing something (probably several things) wrong.
4. The book's contents are its richest mine of metadata.
This is an act of faith: The entire book must be searchable online. Yep, the whole thing. What if five years from now a reader can't remember the author's name or the book title—they only remember there's a character named Chet who says "The night had written a check that daylight couldn't cash." Yep, Panama by Thomas McGuane. If the author weren't so well-known, the only listing would be the full text of the book searchable online.
The easiest way to make a book searchable online is through Google Books. The best way is on the book's own site. There are many ways to partially obscure the text or to make it challenging to read via a browser, so theft should not be an issue. Not being found; that's the issue. You have to pull out all the stops.
I hope that you picked up a trick or two when you passed the test. You can see that there's an awful lot more to metadata than the ISBN and suggested retail price. Take your time—the task is far bigger than most publishers assume.
Metadata won't turn a dog into a pony. But you don't publish dogs, do you? Metadata will make your very fine frontlist and backlist both findable and discoverable, and will give you the opportunity to market every title to its full readership potential. BB
Thad McIlroy is an electronic publishing analyst with The Future of Publishing, based in San Francisco and Vancouver, BC. He is the co-author with Renée Register of The Metadata Handbook (DataCurate, 2012)
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By mmz
In 1969, the four Gold siblings visit a supposedly mystical woman who can tell the date on which someone will die. The oldest sibling, Varya, is 13 when they receive the prophecy, and learns that she will live to 88. Simon, the youngest sibling at 7, learns that he will die at 20.
Benjamin chooses to tell the siblings' stories consecutively, in order of their death, which took a lot of the suspense out of the question of whether the prophecies were ultimately true, leading me to understand that the driving questions of this book is actually, "Does knowing the date of your death become a self-fulfilling prophecy?" Benjamin seems to take it for granted that we can accept the legitimacy of the prophecy but is so heavy-handed in answering the question of self-fulfillment that the stories of what happen to the siblings seems very shallow.
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10 years ofBosch eBike SystemsDealer LocatoreBike Connect
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across the nation are commuting by bike more than ever before. Santa Monica—in the heart of auto-centric Southern California— witnessed a staggering 356 percent increase in biking between 2000 and 2012. Daily biking jumped 80 percent between 2010 and 2015 in New York, another place once dismissed as inhospitable to riders. Meanwhile, in Minneapolis, five percent of people commute by bike, a 170 percent increase since 2000. Today, electric bikes – or eBikes – make up the fastest growing segment of the cycling industry. Soon, we may see more workers commuting to the office on eBike; but why?
Stress-free and convenient
People who travel to work by eBike in urban areas waste no time in mile-long traffic jams. With an electric bike, these holdups can be bypassed conveniently. And on steep inclines, there is no need for excessive exertion – thanks to the support provided by the electric motor. The eBiker can cope with distances up to 15 miles almost effortlessly. Commuting by eBike means relaxed, comfortable travel – reaching one's destination feeling clean and fresh.
Fast and flexible
Time is precious. And by using an electric bike in a town or city, the biker is gaining time, enhancing his or her quality of life. Over distances of up to three miles, an eBike is frequently the fastest means of transportation in urban traffic. But even over distances reaching up to 10 miles, the eBike easily keeps up with the car. In fact, a recent survey by Portland State University finds eBikers are going the distance. The survey asked riders to describe their last three eBike trips. Respondents averaged 9.3 miles per trip, which means they replaced approximately 1,778 motor vehicle trips. The nine-mile average is significant because for decades, policymakers have typically considered five miles to be the threshold that determines whether someone opts to ride a bike or drive a car.
Fit and healthy
On average, every adult spends 11.5 hours in a sitting position each day. Office workers, in particular, often take too little exercise. Commuting by eBike is a practical means of remedying this situation. And since the electric drive can be regulated via the different support levels, cyclists can decide themselves how forcefully they want to pedal. Electric bikes are ideally suited for health-conscious people eager to train their fitness and stamina.
Every commuter who opts for the eBike in preference to his or her car is not only avoiding the worst of city traffic but also doing the environment a favor: the pollution levels of an eBike are merely 1.25 percent those of a private car. Transportation makes up the second biggest source of greenhouse gases, and a study from the Worldwatch Institute finds that shifting from car to bike for short trips totaling 2,000 miles a year (about 5 miles a day) can reduce the average American’s carbon footprint by five percent. Apart from that, the eBiker moves along almost silently and causes little or no noise pollution. This is crucial in city traffic: with a sound pressure level of 65-75 decibels or more, the noise pollution increases susceptibility to stress. In heavy urban traffic the average noise level is around 80 decibels. Thus, the eBike helps to quieten down the inner city areas.
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A Creative Café Dedicated to Outdoor Adventure Is Coming to Malden
Landsmith, from Union Square Donuts cofounder Heather Schmidt, will serve up Tandem Coffee, pastries–and mountain biking gear.
By Jacqueline Cain· 5/23/2019, 4:31 p.m.
Landsmith Cafe is headed for Malden Center. / Photo courtesy of Landsmith
Since Heather Schmidt stepped away a couple years ago from the day-to-day business of the gourmet doughnut shop she cofounded, the entrepreneur has been switching gears—quite literally. Schmidt, the original baker at Union Square Donuts, has gone on a number of long-distance bike adventures, volunteered for a season with Outward Bound, and became a certified running coach. Her latest culinary venture in Greater Boston is directly inspired by these complementary interests: It’s a “café and outdoor adventure clubhouse” called Landsmith, which will open this fall in Malden Center.
Landsmith will have a menu of sandwiches, toasts, yogurt parfaits, and pastries from Forge Baking Co., plus a Tandem Coffee Roasters program created by former Coffee Trike owner San Bellino. It will “feel like we’re at an outdoor summer party at night in the Pacific Northwest,” Schmidt says. But at its core—though it’s going up in a brand-new, modern, mixed-use building, right across from an MBTA station—“the goal is to make [exploring the outdoors] attainable for our customers by giving them the tools for a self-guided adventure.”
Located about a mile away from the Middlesex Fells Reservation, and less than a quarter-mile from an entrance to the Northern Strand Community Trail, Landsmith will be a place where running and bike-tour groups can meet up before or after their activities. Schmidt plans to stock a retail area with tire tubes, bike pumps, handheld water bottles, and more gear for minor needs. She’s also looking into making maps specific to the shop, which outline different activity trails nearby.
The café will also host workshops on topics like trail-running, mountain biking basics, and long-distance bike packing. Schmidt has noticed a need for this type of information, she says.
“People will ask me about where I go trail-running, and they’re very intimidated by it. It’s not really intimidating at all—I think people just don’t know how accessible it is to get outside and run the trails,” she says.
It’s also the right time to open an outdoor connection café, Schmidt says. “There’s a lot coming at us these days. The world can be a really hard place. We sometimes lose the ability to power down and reconnect.”
Schmidt notices how much better she feels about life in general after going on an adventure, she says, like a recent bike trip she took with her partner along the Oregon coast. “It was such an amazing way to see such a gorgeous part of the country because you’re part of the landscape,” Schmidt says. “At one point we heard a whale breach and we pulled our bikes over and just watched.”
She’s also taken a solo bike trip in California. When she tells other women about it, a typical response is, “Weren’t you scared to go alone?” Schmidt says she was, at first. “But people [I met along the way] were really wonderful, and really it was easy,” she says, laughing. “All I had to worry about was riding my bike. I would love to share my experience and the tools you need to go out an do it yourself.”
And of course, a great cup of coffee, too.
Landsmith successfully raised more than $20,000 via Kickstarter this year. Schmidt just got the keys for the future café, and she is working with Joe the Architect and Bailey Davol Studio Build on the design and construction. Buildout will begin in mid-June, and Landsmith could open early this fall. Follow the new shop’s adventures on Facebook and Instagram @landsmithco.
Landsmith, coming to 190 Pleasant St., Malden, in 2019, thelandsmithco.com.
Heather Schmidt of Landsmith. / Photo by Sarah Coppinger
Jacqueline Cain Deputy Food Editor at Boston Magazine jcain@bostonmagazine.com
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Briedis vs. Perez winner faces Usyk next
September 29th, 2017 - Comments Closed
By Jeff Aranow: The World Boxing Super Series continues this Saturday night with WBC cruiserweight champion Mairis Briedis fighting Mike Perez with the winner of his match to face WBO champion Oleksandr Usyk (13-0, 11 KOs in the semifinals the first quarter of 2018.
(Photo credit: World Boxing Super Series)
You can say that Briedis-Perez winner will have the toughest fight in the tournament in battling Usyk. Recently, Usyk defeated Marco Huck by a 10th round knockout in his quarterfinals fight in the WBSS tournament on September 9th in Berlin, Germany. The win took the 30-year-old 2012 Olympic gold medalist Usyk to the next round of the $50 million WBSS tourney.
The loser of the Briedis-Perez fight will be eliminated from the World Boxing Super Series single elimination tourney. The winner of the fight will move on and battle Usyk next. The good news is that the Perez vs. Briedis winner will get it over with in fighting the No.1 seen in Usyk. They won’t have to dread that fight. The Briedis-Perez winner can face Usyk while they’re coming off of a big win. The Briedis vs. Perez winner will have a lot of confidence going into the Usyk fight. That’s one positive that they’ll have going for them.
Briedis (22-0, 18 KOs) will be defending his WBC title at him against Perez (22-2-1, 14 KOs) on Saturday night at the Riga Arena in Riga, Lavia. The boxing public is pretty evenly split in who they feel will win the fight. While some fans feel that Briedis is looking hard to beat, others believe that the 31-year-old Cuban Perez has too much talent for him to handle in this fight.
What has a lot of people wondering is how well will Perez deal with losing so much weight to squeeze down to the cruiserweight division. Perez has been the incredible shrinking man in losing over 40 pounds to go from 240 lbs. to 197 lbs. in just 2 years. It’s something that a normal person can do and feel fine, but when you’re a boxer losing that kind of weight, it’ll sometimes drain you. Fighters like former heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has gotten away with losing vast amounts of weight in between fights, and he’s done well. It’s quite possible that Perez will be able to fight at a high level against Briedis on Saturday night.
“I have lots of experience as both an amateur and professional, a lot of ability and now at cruiserweight I’m much faster on my feet and can throw faster combinations, so I feel like I’m a much better fighter,” said Perez to ESPN.com. ”I really believe I can win the Muhammad Ali trophy. That is how I see it. I think I will win. I cannot see anyone else winning it. I am the best cruiserweight in the competition.”
If Perez gets past Briedis, he’s going to have an incredibly tough time dealing with the movement and long arms of Usyk. Perez has slow feet, and he’s more of a plodder than anything. Perez is similar to Marco Huck in terms of his plodding style of fighting. Perez might need to be happy with just getting past Briedis to briefly hold the WBC title. A victory for Perez is not a forgotten conclusion in the Briedis fight, even though he has much more experience than him at the amateur level. Perez was a very good amateur fighter in Cuba. He wasn’t on the level of Cuban stars like Teofilo Stevenson or even close to that.
Perez was just a good amateur fighter from the Cuban amateur system, which pumps great fighters one after another year after year. Briedis was a kick boxer who took up boxing, and did really well at it. You can tell from watching Briedis fight, he just has an incredible knack for boxing. He would obviously be a better boxer if his background was in boxing, but it doesn’t seem to have slowed him down. Briedis is fighting like he’d always been a boxer. Briedis might have too much for Perez to deal with on Saturday night with his heavy hands, elusive style of fighting and his combinations.
“I am well prepared for Perez,” Briedis said. “He is a southpaw and I am getting great sparring from different southpaw boxers. I can’t wait for (Saturday). On that date I will make the Latvian people proud.”
Briedis has looked very good in beating Marco Huck, Simon Vailiy, Olanwaju Durodola, Daniel Venter and Lazlo Hubert. Briedis is an incredibly intelligent fighter, who is constantly thinking and looking for ways to beat his opponents. Briedis finds ways to win his fights. He’s not just a crude banger who goes out there looking to destroy his opponents as fast as possible. Briedis will box if he has to against a big puncher like Perez, That’s something that Perez is going to need to be aware of on Saturday. This isn’t going to be fight in which Briedis is going to come right at him looking to slug it out the way that Carlos Takam did in his fight with Perez.
Takam, by the way, deserved a victory over Perez in their fight in 2014. The fight was scored a 10 round draw, but it was clearly a win for Takam, a big win. Perez came into the fight highly hyped following his win over Magomed Abduslamov on November 2, 2013. Perez looked like he was shaken from the experience of what took place in the Abdusalamov fight. I don’t think he was nearly ready to jump back into the ring just 2 months later to fight a volume puncher like Takam in January 2014. If that was Perez at his best, then he’s going to have problems against Briedis, because that version of Perez will not be competitive on Saturday night with the Latvian fighter.
Perez has got to show more variation and more facets to his game for him to beat a clever fighter like Briedis, being that he’ll be giving him different looks and trying a lot of different things to get the win.
Briedis vs. Perez will be televised on DirectTV on Audience Network on Saturday night in the U.S, starting at 7:00 p.m. ET on delay. Briedis is the No.3 seen in the tournament. Briedis and Usyk look like the guys to beat in the tournament. Both are going to be really hard to beat. That’s not a knock on Perez, but he’s a pretty basic fighter that comes straight ahead. If you stand in front of him, he’ll try and take you out with power shots. Sometimes he wins with his slugging, but at other times Perez fails miserably like when he was knocked out in the 1st round by Alexander Povetkin and out-boxed by Bryant Jennings. Perez fought like he was scared of Jennings. It was a strange fight.
“It’s an opportunity of a lifetime,” Perez said. “Fighting in Latvia isn’t an issue for me. I don’t care where I fight. I’ll fight anywhere. I feel good, I’m confident, and I’m looking forward to Riga. I have a chance to become world champion in my very first fight in the tournament, so I couldn’t have asked for better. Breidis is a good champion but I can’t wait to bring the belt home,” said Perez.
This fight could turn out to be a grueling war. If goes down like that, it could end quickly. Perez has already shown to have chin issues. Briedis hasn’t been hurt yet. He stood up to Olanrewau Durodola’s huge bombs to stop him in the 9th round last year on May 14, 2016.
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Steve King is fundraising by accusing 'the rabid leftist media' and 'NeverTrumpers' of trying to 'destroy' him over his own racist comments
Grace PanettaJan 18, 2019, 21:24 IST
Joshua Roberts/Reuters
Republican Rep. Steve King has often come under fire for making racially charged remarks.
Embattled Rep. Steve King of Iowa is raising money by accusing "Never Trump Republicans" and the "rabid leftist media" of trying to "destroy" him following racist comments he made in an interview.
King was stripped of his committee assignments after wondering how terms like "white nationalist" and "white supremacist" became offensive in a New York Times interview.
"Like the Founding Fathers, I am indeed a champion of Western Civilization and American culture - I'm an American nationalist - not a 'white nationalist' or 'white supremacist,'" the email said.
After being stripped of his committee assignments following racist comments made in an interview to The New York Times, Rep. Steve King of Iowa is now raising money by accusing "Never Trump" Republicans and the "rabid leftist media" of trying to "destroy" him.
"As you may have noticed, the unhinged Left has teamed up with Republican 'NeverTrumpers' and is pulling out all the stops to destroy me," King's campaign wrote in a Wednesday email. "Since they were unable to defeat my campaign in the 2018 midterm elections, the rabid leftist media is blasting the airwaves ... to paint me as a 'racist.'"
"White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization - how did that language become offensive?" King wondered to The Times. "Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?"
King's remarks sparked widespread, bipartisan outrage and condemnation. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy expelled King from serving on any committees in the 116th Congress, and the House passed a near-unanimous resolution denouncing white supremacy in all forms.
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"Like the Founding Fathers, I am indeed a champion of Western Civilization and American culture - I'm an American nationalist - not a 'white nationalist' or 'white supremacist', as the Times imply in their biased coverage," the email continued.
While King has been continually re-elected since his first run in 2002 despite a long track-record of tacitly supporting avowed white supremacists and making racist comments, his days in Congress could be numbered.
King won his 2018 re-election bid against Democrat J.D. Scholten by just 3.37 percentage points, and the campaign of Republican Iowa State Sen. Randy Feenstra, who is challenging King in the GOP primary in 2020, said Thursday that they had raised a stunning $100,000 within 10 days of announcing the campaign.
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Cal. ESA & Unsettled Admin Law
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participatory / Appellate Practice 1 Credit
This week, our show addresses a California Supreme Court ruling that issued Monday, in the case of Central Coast Forest Association v. Fish and Game Commission, which clarifies certain procedural elements of California's Endangered Species Act. The decision culminates more than a decade of litigation over petitioners' challenge to the inclusion of a certain population of salmon within the protections of that state statute. But, notably, the court's ruling does not reach the merits of the petitioners' challenge, it merely holds that the parties involved in the case are, indeed, able to bring their challenge, and in the manner they brought it.
Tony Francois, a senior attorney with the Pacific Legal Foundation, will join us to discuss the case's underlying facts, legal intricacies, and most salient impacts. Mr. Francois authored an amicus brief in support of the petitioners, in which he claimed that the intermediate court's ruling in this matter threw state administrative law, in this context, into disarray. In that intermediate court decision, a divided panel held that, specifically because of the type of judicial review allowed for under the pertinent California Endangered Species Act provision - which is administrative mandamus - the original decision to list the salmon population within the act's protections should be regarded as a quasi-judicial one. Such a designation, Francois explains, gives the original decision gives it a somewhat preclusive effect, immunizing it from certain challenges (like the one brought here) and even, Francois explains, from review and amendment by the very administrative agency, here the Fish and Game Commission, that made the decision in the first place.
In his brief, Mr. Francois explained why such an interpretation is legally incorrect and, in policy terms, problematic, as it could raise due process concerns, and unpredictably impact other similar areas of California law where administrative mandamus is the form of judicial review prescribed. In an unanimous decision authored by Justice Chin, the state high court agreed.
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Beyond the Banking Royal Commission - APRA's Renewed Corporate Plan for 2019
Banking and finance Financial services
In brief - On 29 August 2019 the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) issued its 2019-2023 Corporate Plan (Plan)
The Plan sets out APRA’s priorities for the 2019-2023 planning period relevant to achieving its regulatory and supervisory purpose and in consideration of the Australian Government’s Statement of Expectations for APRA and APRA’s Statement of Intent published in September 2018.
Interestingly but not expectantly, the spectre of the Banking Royal Commission is present in the Plan's overall tone as the Plan acknowledges that "community trust in the fairness of the financial system has been eroded, and regulators like APRA need to play a role in restoring that trust' and as a consequence APRA intends to "more clearly identify the expected outcomes for the Australian community".
In this regard, APRA's Plan will focus on 4 strategic areas:
maintaining financial system resilience
improving outcomes for superannuation members
improving cyber-resilience across the financial system, and
transforming governance, culture, remuneration and accountability across all regulated financial institutions
Key Implications of APRA's Corporate Plan
The Plan affirms support for all the recommendations arising from the Banking Royal Commission and Capability Review directed at APRA.
Notably the following new regulatory themes emerge.
APRA's Corporate Plan is focussed on delivering community outcomes
Aside from its dedicated prudential raison d'etre of maintaining financial safety across APRA-regulated financial institutions and the stability of the financial system, the Plan identifies a renewed focus on delivering 'community outcomes'.
This presumably stems from the terms of reference and recommendations of the Banking Royal Commission and appears to import a concept of community standards and expectations which encompasses the conduct, practices, behaviour or business activities of financial services entities.
However notwithstanding the shift to take into account 'community standards and expectations', it is anticipated that APRA's overall focus will be tempered by its statutory limits which mandate the classes of the community which are subject to consideration under the prudential regulatory regime, namely Australian depositors, insurance policyholders and superannuation members by fostering the resilience of APRA-regulated financial institutions and the Australian financial system.
Regulation to address conduct issues raised by the Banking Royal Commission
The Plan acknowledges and responds to the impact of the Banking Royal Commission recommendations and emphasises that "financial institutions must act to improve their conduct and there is a greater expectation of deterrent and punitive enforcement action by all regulators, which has been facilitated by recent legislative changes".
In addition, the Plan contemplates increased coordination and more explicit collaboration between APRA and its peer regulators in the context of the increasing prevalence of shared responsibilities and issues of common interest amongst those regulators.
Broadening of APRA's Remit - GCRA
The Plan contains a specific strategic objective which marks a substantive shift in policy considerations and a broadening of APRA's remit to "transform governance, culture, remuneration and accountability across all regulated institutions" referred to as 'GCRA'.
In this regard, APRA's traditional focus on financial stability and supervision will continue but will be expanded to take into account broader systemic factors such as culture and governance in the financial services sector, cyber security and non-financial risks.
In practice and based on the Plan, this is likely to take the following forms:
(i) a prudential requirement for stronger governance and control of non-financial risks by APRA-regulated institutions;
(ii) a policy emphasis on implementing remuneration frameworks that reward good outcomes and impose consequences for poor behaviour;
(iii) embedding a ‘constructively tough’ mindset to the supervision of GCRA across APRA, including "empowering supervisors with market intelligence to identify GCRA outliers and to take action where appropriate";
(iv) the adoption by APRA a ‘whole of system’ mindset through a more deliberate approach to collaborating with peer domestic and international agencies on a broader range of risks and mitigation activities;
(v) the ongoing strengthening of APRA’s engagement with ASIC, particularly in areas of common interest such as enforcement, superannuation and GCRA.
APRA Corporate Plan to address cyber security and privacy challenges
The Plan recognises and envisages the impact of:
(vi) new types of entities seeking to enter the financial services sector such as fintechs, tech giants; and
(vii) ‘Open Banking’ reforms and the Consumer Data Right;
Both of which will have the potential to significantly alter the competitive landscape and bring additional technology, security and privacy challenges.
In this regard, amongst other things, the Plan affirms that APRA will:
(i) actively supervise the adoption of a new prudential standard CPS 234 Information Security;
(ii) target areas of weakness and actively supervise APRA-regulated institutions to address basic cyber hygiene issues and maintain ‘fit for purpose’ response plans for plausible cyber incidents;
(iii) take steps to improve cyber resilience and to transform its data into a strategic asset by further developing its data strategy and to make greater and more effective use and sharing of data, in consultation with key stakeholders including industry participants and other regulatory agencies.
Banking Executive Accountability Regime (BEAR)
The Plan also builds upon the recommended outcomes of the Banking Royal Commission which identified that "too little attention has been given to the evident connections between compensation, incentive and remuneration practices and regulatory, compliance and conduct risks”.
Consequently, the Plan affirms the continuing implementation of APRA’s new and expanded functions, including "rolling-out the BEAR across all APRA-regulated industries to heighten standards of accountability".
Likely Impact of APRA's Corporate Plan
In the immediate short term we anticipate the following impact on financial services institutions and providers:
a shift and expansion in APRA's remit to encompass the prudential assessment of 'GCRA' compliance
increased coordination and more explicit collaboration between APRA and its peer regulators, including active management of its data into a strategic asset for supervisory and enforcement purposes
the centrality of regulatory enforcement as a tool to improve prudential conduct and compliance
transform data-enabled decision-making
continuing scrutiny of compensation, incentive and remuneration practices and the implementation of BEAR
a regulatory and prudential policy emphasis on information security and cybersecurity
increased transparency on regulatory outcomes
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GOOD EATS - Food Glorious Food
Author: Courtney Hampson
In the late 1800s, a lot was happening in our country. Development and commercial production of electric lighting and gasoline-powered automobiles was underway, steel frame construction of skyscrapers was happening for the first time, and Thomas Edison was inventing the first movie in his New Jersey workshop.
Indeed, as the industrial revolution paved way to the Gilded Age and a lifestyle enjoyed like never before, our newfound wealth as a country also yielded newfound power as a world leader in the Progressive Era. But, perhaps more exciting are the innovations that we didn’t read about in our middle school history books. While all of the progressive changes were taking root in America, a silent food revolution was also well underway.
In 1874, concessionaire Robert Green invented the ice cream soda at a fair in Philadelphia. Two years later, Hires Root Beer debuted at the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, making way for an even better ice cream soda combination, no doubt. Quick on root beer’s heels, in 1886, the first Coca Cola was sold by pharmacist John Pemberton as a tonic. It also contained a dash of cocaine, so I image the recipe has changed some since then.
In the 1890s, the early origins of peanut butter were in process, thanks to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s patent for the “Process of Preparing Nut Meal.” Originally developed as a protein source for his vegetarian patients, this nut meal would be refined into the peanut butter we know today, over the next couple of decades. In 1896, two major food innovations, Cracker Jack and Tootsie Roll, stuck.
Fast forward through condensed soup (are we really grateful for this invention?), Chiclets, Pabst Blue Ribbon, cotton candy, Fig Newtons and Hershey’s chocolate, and we hit the 20th century with gusto. In the early 1900s, we saw the introduction of moon pies and marshmallow fluff. Hostess cupcakes and the Good Humor man had both made their mark by 1920. In 1922, Girl Scout cookies debuted, and suddenly the organization had a new mission to honor. Kool Aid, Pez and cheese puffs were on the market by the ’30s with Hawaiian Punch and corn dogs not far behind.
Decades of new food innovations added a little spice to the life of Americans, who with each new food fad had something to talk about. Food was a part of the conversation, made ever more obvious by the mad ad men hawking the products. In the 1950s something changed. As the “golden age” of television took hold, the make-up of family dinners changed, as did the food products that arrived on the scene. Instead of a hot meal on the table and “tell me about your day, dear,” housewives everywhere were rushing to get Swanson TV dinners on tray tables in front of the boob tube lest the family miss an episode of “I Love Lucy” or “This is Your Life.” Around the same time as the TV dinner, we also saw frozen pizzas and frozen piecrust become available. Oh, the horror! No more piecrust from scratch?
What was happening in America? Doo-wop. Rock ’n’ roll. Elvis Presley. The Coasters. The Drifters. Chuck Berry. Johnny Cash. Marilyn Monroe. Elizabeth Taylor. Bridget Bardot. Rita Hayworth. Va va va voom. Women aren’t so interested in being in the kitchen; instead they’re getting in touch with their inner sex kitten.
So, now that we’re swinging our hips and shaking our (ever-expanding) rears, life has changed. Life is fun again. World War II recovery was behind us. Women’s rights are ahead of us and the future is bright.
Fast forward another decade or so and women are entering the workforce en mass, kids are latchkey (a term coined in the 1940s when Peppermint Patties were hitting the spot) and need a snack after school. And, it’s the 1960s, so “the munchies” are likely at an all-time high. So, what are people and potheads eating? Pop tarts, Tang, Spaghetti O’s and Doritos.
The economic challenges of the 1970s forced folks to get creative with their meals. So, why not melt down all of the cheese in the house and dip whatever else fills the fridge into your hot fromage? And, fondue is born!
The’70s also saw Orville Redenbacher make his mark with his Gourmet Popping Corn. Hamburger Helper, Egg McMuffins, Cup O’Noodles, and Miller Lite also launched during this decade. Burger King decides to let you “Have it Your Way,” Denny’s introduces their “Grand Slam Breakfast” and gratefully, Reese’s Pieces are born!
With women now firmly planted in the workforce, Betty Crocker was no slouch and unveiled the “Working Women’s Cookbook” in 1982 with a plethora of “family-style” meal options. Jell-O Pudding Pops, Classic Coke and Oscar Meyer bun length hot dogs were also birthed in the 1980s, as was Olive Garden, a trend I’ll never understand.
In 1993 the Food Network was launched and, frankly, we’ve been gorging goners ever since. Bravo TV and the Travel Channel add new food-related programming every television season, and suddenly what began as a “how to” resource for home cooks has now created a whole new segment of our population tuning in to see just how many super spicy hot wings one host can eat in under 60 minutes. We’re willing people to puke? In a society that used to lump people into categories like white collar, blue collar, yuppies, and hippies, today we find that “foodies” are an audience to be salivated over.
Technology has only heightened the foodie phenomenon. You don’t even have to pick up the phone to make a dinner reservation anymore. Just pull up your Open Table App on your iPhone and reserve your table for four tonight at eight. Point your browser to TastingTable, Eater, or Ulterior Epicure for the latest in food fads and some frank conversation about who’s not hitting the popular palate. There, you’ll also find food porn.
Ah yes, the latest in food fads… the pornography of the plate. I’m guilty. I admit it. I take photos of fabulous meals (prepared at home by moi or by well-known chefs) and post them to Facebook. And believe you me, they spark conversation. In fact, my picture of the CQs wedge salad launched a days-long discussion on the art of blue cheese and Vidalia onion dressing.
Foodspotting is just a few years young, but picking up on the trend that people are in a food coma, and created a place (online and via their mobile App) with a mission to “find and share the foods you love: Instead of reviewing restaurants, you can recommend your favorite dishes and see what others have recommended wherever you go.” Of course you can link your Foodspotting account to your Facebook page, so every friend is always 100 percent in the know. Whew.
We’re now a society on a mission to find the perfect plate, the next best the thing, the newest food trend; we want our “Artisan bread, dipped in artisan cheese, dipped in artisan nuts, dipped in artisan greens…”
Have we gone too far? As the lyric above from the song “Eat It, Don’t Tweet It” suggests, we can’t all be gastronomists. Perhaps with all this food we’re consuming, we’re really all just full of hot air.
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NBA takes hard look at metrics when formulating schedule
Teams will start regular season sooner and will no longer play 4 games in 5 days.
By TIM REYNOLDSAP Basketball Writer
MIAMI — Larry Bird made his plea years ago.
His request to the NBA was not unique: Bird wanted the league to eliminate the dreaded stretches of four games in five days. What made Bird’s pitch memorable was that it didn’t just cite the demand of so many games in such a short amount of time, but also pointed out how the anxiousness caused by such tests can hurt a team beforehand and how the fatigue lingers long afterward.
In this Oct. 8, 2015 photo, Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James watches from the bench during a timeout of the second half of a preseason game in Philadelphia. AP photo
“What he said to me has been ringing in my head ever since,” said Tom Carelli, the NBA’s senior vice president for broadcasting.
Carelli and the rest of the NBA schedule-making gurus were unable to make Bird’s request reality – until now. With an extra week of days to play with, along with some much deeper looks at arena availability and ways to try to help competitive balance, the NBA believes the schedule released Monday should be the most user-friendly in the league’s history.
The four-games-in-five-days challenges? Eliminated for the first time in NBA history.
Back-to-backs? Only 14.4 per team on average, an all-time low for the third straight year.
Single-game road trips, average miles traveled and time zones crossed? All down a bit as well.
“I think at this point, and frankly the minute we got the extra week, we could conclude the schedule is really, undebatably, the best basketball schedule we’ve ever had,” said Evan Wasch, the NBA’s senior vice president for basketball strategy and analytics. “That’s what the week affords you, the opportunity to focus on all these different metrics.”
The extra week, which allows the regular season to start Oct. 17 – the league’s earliest start since 1980 – was an obvious help. But schedule makers went further, taking a deeper-than-usual look at arena availability around the league and trying to minimize the nights where a weary team will face a well-rested opponent.
In other words, NBA fans, meet FTE.
The metric – an acronym for Fresh, Tired and Even – is a major part of the NBA schedule process. It’s a way the NBA has charted how tired one team will likely be when facing another.
FTE has been part of the NBA’s internal charting for years, but wasn’t often discussed openly or with teams.
“If a team plays the night before and its opponent didn’t, then one team is tired and its opponent is fresh,” Wasch said. “That fresh-tired ratio will be lower than ever. It’s hard to measure and track when you build a schedule manually, but it’s easy to track when building one with optimization software.”
Instead of asking teams for 50 possible home dates for their respective buildings – the past standard – schedule makers like Carelli, Wasch, Chris Boghosian, Gene Li and Hao Meng instead checked every available date and tried a much broader look at how the puzzle might fit.
Their work might be particularly noticed on ABC games this season.
Last season, when stars like LeBron James, Kyrie Irving, Kevin Love, Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, Draymond Green and Andre Iguodala all were given nights off when the Cavaliers or Warriors were playing nationally televised games on ABC, there was no shortage of scorn. This season, teams playing in those marquee ABC games will have a day off both before and after those contests.
“The more information we got, the easier it was to reduce back-to-backs,” Carelli said.
The changes aren’t only to benefit players and teams.
The league this year will be labeling the schedule by week – Week 1, Week 2, so on, from Monday to Sunday. It’s essentially a idea at presenting fans, and fantasy players, with a schedule that’s broken down into smaller bites.
“It’s progress. It’s all part of a larger basket of progress,” Carelli said.
There will undoubtedly be some schedule griping. No one is claiming perfection. Improvement, for now, is enough, and that extra week of room being built into the season is already making an impact – even though the first real games are still two months away.
“We don’t get scored,” Carelli said. “We don’t necessarily win or lose, which is nice. The bottom line is that our primary, secondary, whatever goal it is, our goal is about the game. Our goal is about doing the best we can to create the most competitively balanced schedule we can for all the teams.”
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MANILA, Philippines—If the steady stream of developments seen across the country were to be an indicator, then indeed, the Philippine real еstatе sector is well-poised for continued robust growth over the next several years.
And for many property developers, this comes as an opportune time to cash in on the real еstatе boom and join the fray to further expand their businesses across various segments and to cater to an even bigger network of clientele.
Such a move, however, can be quite tricky as it takes more than just delivering quality homes to keep up with the changing times. A developer will only remain on top of its game if it has the right expertise, invaluable experience, and the ability to correctly predict what the market will need and want over the next several years.
Take the case of premium property developer Century Properties Group Inc. Over the course of four cycles in the realty sector, the company knows all too well that to remain strong and relevant in this industry, it has to consistently innovate and reinvent itself to keep up with the evolving needs of the discerning market.
This is why Century Properties is now bringing its tradition of innovative developments to the retail and business process outsourcing (BPO) industries, where an exponential growth has been forecasted within the next several years. Seizing such opportunity will not only cement the company’s already strong foothold in the market, but is also seen to help grow its recurring revenue streams.
“The company is now evolving from being a top residential developer in Metro Manila to a leading well diversified real еstatе developer with significant recurring and predictable revenue streams,” noted Century Properties Executive Chairman of the Board Jose E.B. Antonio.
“We remain focused on building a stronger and more balanced real еstatе company, carrying on with the very same spirit and will power that carried us through in our earlier years,” Antonio further related.
Since it was established in 1986, Century Properties has already earned a reputation for challenging the status quo in its residential developments. It has led the upscale to premium real еstatе niche to newfound heights in recent years, thus rightfully earning the title as an industry game changer.
Now on its 28th year, the company continues to implement new strategies such as tapping new markets that includes the retail and office space segments.
Such a strategy dovetails with the pronouncements made by experts and analysts, including CBRE Philippines and Colliers International, which had earlier forecasted that the local property sector would continue accelerating as global investors have begun to recognize the Philippines as a top investment spot in Asia-Pacific. The country also remained a top investment destination for companies wanting to set up new offices or expand existing operations, particularly in the BPO and retail industries.
To prepare for an increased demand in these spheres, Century Properties is on the move to complete by 2019 six commercial buildings which will have a total of 160,000 sqm up for lease, to cater to the growing needs of the retail and office space segments. Such projects are also expected to provide the company with a stable and balanced stream of cash flows in the years ahead, the company added.
Here’s a quick glance at four of the company’s latest and upcoming projects that will help Century Properties bolster its position anew in the Philippine realty sector.
Launched early this year, the Century City Mall is the first mall in Makati in close to a decade.
The five-storey retail and lifestyle center, which complements the company’s master-planned community Century City, is being positioned as the Mall of Modern Makati, a project that gives rise to the new crop of shopping centers called “boutique malls.”
And with the early success of its first mall project, the company is already looking into expanding this new portfolio in its other master planned developments.
“Unlike other mall developers which seek to serve a market that extends across borders with an expansive range of shops and services, we want to follow the track of Century City Mall, which is to bring together stores in a single facility with its set of curated selection of shops and offerings to complement its own residential and office communities,” Century Properties President and CEO Marco Antonio said.
Asian Century Center
This latest project by Century Properties is expected to help address the continuing strong demand for quality office space. The 23-storey Asian Century Center, which is a joint venture with Asian Carmakers Corp., was announced as the future home of the largest showroom of upscale car brand BMW. The construction of the tower has begun and is expected to be completed in 2017.
The new BGC project is foreseen to meet the demands for highly efficient and effective office development. In anticipation of the rise in the number of BPOs setting up in the country, Asian Century Center is being designed to cater to a 24 hour working schedule.
“We have secured our roles in the expansion of businesses in Makati and in Bonifacio Global City, where the prospects remain high and will continue to be so in the coming years. The recent announcement of global outsourcing research and advisory firm Tholons that Manila has overtaken Mumbai as the second leading outsourcing location in the world bodes well for the Philippines, as this opens a climate of security in BPO investments in the country,” the younger Antonio said.
To be turned over at the end of 2014 is Century Properties’ milestone contribution to health care and tourism, the 28-storey Centuria Medical Makati. The project is hinged on the expanding interest for outpatient medical care for its convenience, value for money and modern technology.
Located at the Philippine Economic Zone Authority (PEZA)-registered IT Park within Century City, Centuria will be equipped with a modern IT backbone to support the varied connectivity requirements of more than 500 clinic spaces. As an outpatient medical center, it has the support facilities that will help both doctors and patients: a diagnostic laboratory that will be operated by Hi-Precision Diagnostics, a day surgery center, a radiology center, and recovery suites among others.
As a medical tourism facility, Centuria will also offer medical concierge services.
Meanwhile, Century Properties’ other recurring income streams are expected to come from the luxury tower Century Spire and the soon to be launched Tower 6 of the Acqua Private Residences. Taking advantage of this momentum, the company also said it will make some announcements of new projects in the coming months such as the Azure North, an out-city replication of its massively successful residential resort concept project, the Azure Urban Resort Residences in Bicutan, Parañaque.
Century Properties is further confident that the country’s strong economic performance will help the industry see through another period of success in the coming years, with macroeconomic fundamentals seen to continue to support and encourage the real еstatе industry. In 28 years, Century Properties has managed to complete 25 condominiums with more than 870,000 square meters and 8,777 units.
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Mr. Ning’s to close its doors after 28 years
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1988 was a memorable year. My sister Sarah was born. The Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series. Mr. Ning’s opened.
I was 7 years old when I had my first experience at Mr. Ning’s Chinese Garden. My dad had been working with Bob Weeks – a partner in the restaurant – for years as his travel agent and had been following closely the developments of the newest restaurant on Catalina Island. Our family had the opportunity to meet Jan & Leonard Ning and their children before the restaurant opened & we were there opening night June 9, 1988.
You know how you have a family restaurant? It’s the place you go to after school concerts, for birthday celebrations, when you want something consistent and delicious. That is how our family views Avalon’s only authentic Chinese Restaurant. Have family visiting from out of town? Let’s go to Ning’s. Not feeling very good? Time for soup from Ning’s. Want to go out for a birthday dinner? Ning’s sounds good. (How do they get those oranges to taste so good?)
Jordan & Cathy with Jan Ning at the restaurant.
To hear after 29 years, they are closing their doors for good – our hearts are breaking. I guess that’s the heartbreak of tying a restaurant in so closely with memorable life events. Nothing lasts forever, especially small businesses. Knowing that truth doesn’t make this any easier, though. The sadness multiplies as we realize this will be our last season to share Mr. Ning’s with our touring foodies.
When we first had Mr. Ning’s as a tour vendor on the Avalon Tasting & Cultural Walking Tour, they served up this beautiful plated taste of their green beans (not too spicy) and did tea service for everyone at the table. Because of the water shortage, the tea service was replaced with bottled water when requested. Even with the change, the local eatery is one of the top spots guests report returning to after the tour ends.
The biggest hole this news puts in my heart is the loss of seeing Jan & Leonard, Jan’s sisters and their employees in the community every day. I know some of them will stay and will find work elsewhere on the island, but their whole team has become family. They know our voices. They know when we’re feeling sick and when we’re celebrating. They know our order (beef with broccoli, Dave’s shrimp, paper-wrapped chicken, teriyaki beef skewers, chicken fried rice and the occasional combination noodle soup – please and thank you). They were there when Sarah learned to eat cheerios (and thankfully didn’t mind the mess she made learning how to eat them). They kept us updated on their family and we kept them updated on ours. Jan and Leonard always asked after my pop when he got sick. Jan, especially, would ask after I’d been overtown to visit him. They were, as always, so kind and caring, especially after he passed. When my middle sister Jennifer got engaged we took a trip up north to meet Jordan’s family. We tried his family’s local Chinese restaurant. Very good – but not Ning’s. They now welcome the third generation of our family – Kensley, Kelton, Wren & a niece or nephew to be named soon – on a regular basis.
The Eubank Family & Mr. Sean enjoying one of many birthday celebrations at Mr. Ning’s Chinese Garden on Catalina Island.
This story of family isn’t just my story with the restaurant or only my family’s interaction with the Ning’s crew. This is the story for hundreds of families in Avalon and hundreds of visitors who return to the island every year. This change impacts all of us. So I propose we send them off with the same level of love they’ve given us these three decades. Let them know how you feel whether it’s through a hug or an extra kind word or special tip or gift. Take the time to dine in. Spend some time with them. Each of them has been such an integral part of our hometown, let’s remember to give them a whole lot of love before they go.
We love you Jan, Leonard, Jenny, Joanne, George, and all of you who work or have worked at Mr. Ning’s Chinese Garden. We are excited for your retirement, but will miss you more than you know. We will be in to dine soon.
Mr. Ning’s Chinese Garden will close in the fall of 2017. The Atwater Hotel, owned & operated by the Santa Catalina Island Company, will go under a major renovation beginning in winter of 2017.
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Über Carbon Fiber
Carbon fiber is now found in luxury sports cars and is therefore rarely seen for middle-aged people. As a team at Carbofy, we want to bring the material carbon fiber closer to the people and show what advantages this material brings. With our lifestyle products, we bring the highest quality to light, and also easier everyday life.
From covers to purses, we specialize in making everyday life easier and building a building block with every product. Mutli-Tools and simple products will always find the solution to the next problem. Carbon will make them much easier, since this material has a much better fatigue resistance than aluminum due to its reinforced fibers, whether salt water or UV light, in these cases carbon is 100% corrosion resistant.
All these benefits are just as beautiful as the look of the material. Carbofy specializes in the strength of the material and optics. Each product in our shop is made of carbon fiber and offers a beautiful picture as a lifestyle product, and is therefore visible everywhere. In red, Forged, with a matte finish or just glossy, we offer everything the tuning heart desires and are open to all desires and honest.
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Forged Carbon has made many projects easier and ultimately completed, but what exactly is behind this mosaic-like material that can be shown in full glory? But first you have to look into the past to understand how the Forged Carbon had developed.
As early as 2008, Lamborghini started producing the Forged Carbon Fibers. Before that, there were several strength tests that brought strength and strength to the material through constant improvements. From here, the technology was first installed in 2010 in the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento, this model Lamborghini with only 20 copies on the market, and is still one of the most accessible hypercars in the automotive industry. Lamborghini unveiled the Forged Carbon 2017 at the GENF, and presented it with the title: Material of the Future.
But what exactly distinguishes Forged Carbon from normal Carbon Fiber?
At first sight, it is immediately visible that it has a completely different structure than the conventional carbon which is still incorporated into the most modern sports car to this day. The biggest advantage here is the production, because Forged Carbon is produced in much less time than the conventional technologies, making this material a true savior for the automakers. In addition, the strength acts just like the normal carbon, and thus Lamborghinis future material for all upcoming Hypercars is. The structure of the material resembles a mosaic image and shows something new with each fiber, on our Carbofy smartphone cases, each case is something special, because all fibers hold each other differently in resin each cell phone case is a single 1/1 copy of Carbofy®. As our product range is steadily expanding, we are proud to say that there is still much to be done in the direction of the Forged Carbon, as we are more than enthusiastic about the material itself and also hope that you are more than satisfied with our products. Lamborghini has managed to produce a material that can not only be used in the automotive industry, and thus facilitates some production. The aviation industry has become equally attentive and we are all curious how the material Forged Carbon will help us in the future.
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10 Things We’re Thankful for This Thanksgiving
Lecia Imbery
Gathering with friends and family. Packed roads and airports. Turkey with all the trimmings. Thanksgiving is upon us once again. In this time of bounty, we are mindful of course of the millions who can’t afford a big feast or a warm home in which to host it. And we’ll keep fighting for them. Despite the stubbornness of poverty and inequality that exists in America today, we know that we have many, many things to be thankful for this year. Here are just a few of them:
We’re thankful for the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the use of subsidies in the Affordable Care Act, which meant that 6.4 million Americans can keep their subsidies and their insurance without fear of skyrocketing prices. We’re also thankful for the 31 states that have chosen to expand Medicaid, giving health coverage to millions of low-income people, and for the two-year extension of the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which covers more than 8 million children in low-income families. All of these have led to a significant drop in the percentage of uninsured Americans – something we can all be thankful for.
We’re thankful for all of the advocates who took action to #StopTheCuts, and for the members of Congress who voted for a bipartisan budget deal to eliminate the majority of harmful spending caps in 2016 and 2017, raise the debt ceiling, avoid benefit cuts for recipients of Social Security Disability Insurance, and avoid a large premium jump for a sizable number of Medicare beneficiaries. We need to keep beating the drum to ensure that the additional funding from the budget deal goes to human needs programs, without harmful policy riders that could stop an FY16 spending package in its tracks, and we know you’ll be there with us.
We’re thankful for advocates and elected officials who believe we must not abandon our values by turning our backs on desperate people fleeing violence, whether in Syria, Central America or other parts of the world. Welcoming refugees is a sign and a source of our nation’s strength.
We’re thankful, especially on this food-centered holiday, for the food banks that serve 1 in 7 Americans, and for all our friends who work tirelessly on the ground to directly serve our low-income and disadvantaged neighbors.
We’re thankful for advocates who show how policies impact real people, like these amazing Native American youth, this young woman who shares her own story of homelessness, and everyone who submitted their story through the Community Voices: Why Nutrition Assistance Matters campaign. Through their stories, they remind our leaders that there are people behind the statistics and that poverty, hunger and inequality don’t have one face or take just one form.
We’re thankful for our basic safety net programs, especially SNAP/food stamps, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, unemployment insurance, and the Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit, which keep millions out of poverty, are better for the economy and help children and families at every stage of life.
We’re thankful for champions in Congress and the Obama Administration who put forth legislation and policy changes to reduce inequality in the areas of sentencing reform, family friendly legislation, overtime pay, a living wage, reforming TANF, and reauthorizing child nutrition and education programs. The work on these issues continues. We’re also thankful for those who stand up against bad legislation.
We’re thankful for our member organizations who continue to support CHN and put out great Resources from Around the Coalition to help us all do our work better; the many state partners who worked with us to release state poverty data reports, raising awareness of poverty and policy solutions in their states; the 1300-plus local, state, and national organizations who are a part of our SAVE for ALL campaign; our friends who supported our Human Needs Hero event; and for our community who gathers regularly in DC at CHN’s Friday Advocates Meetings to share information and actions.
We’re thankful for all of our guest bloggers, who shared pieces on the minimum wage, low- income tax credits, hunger, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, ending family detention policies, reforming TANF, and more. We’re also thankful for those who cross-posted our blog pieces, including MomsRising, Oxfam America, the Pennsylvania Council of Churches and others, for helping to spread the word about the many important issues covered on our blog.
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Thanks again for reading, and a very Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
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The life and legacy of J.M.W. Turner
We chart the highs and lows in the career of a genius — ahead of the sale of four superb Turner watercolours in New York
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Meredith Etherington-Smith on designer Jean-Michel Frank and pieces he created for a very special interior in Argentina, which sold for €1,174,625
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Joan Kathleen Harding Eardley, R.S.A. (1921-1963)
Boy with a Fringe: Sandy
signed 'EARDLEY' (lower left), numbered 'EE29' (on the reverse)
with Roland, Browse and Delbanco, London.
Mr & Mrs Guy Barton, Kirkby Stephen, from whom purchased by the present owner.
C. Andreae, Joan Eardley, Farnham, 2013, p. 130, pl. 125.
Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery, Joan Eardley Retrospective, August - September 1988, no. 61.
Joan Eardley is celebrated most as a painter of elemental landscapes of roaring seas and barley fields tossing in the wind, but her work as a painter of people is equally important and is now receiving the attention it deserves. When not painting in the coastal village of Catterline in Aberdeenshire, she rented a studio in Glasgow and painted the slum kids. She preferred children to adults as subjects, feeling an empathy with them which comes across in these closely-observed and expressive paintings. These are proper portraits, not caricatures, and the depth of feeling pervading them is often unsettling. Eardley knew these kids, seeing them every day in their tenements, poor and often undernourished, though full of energy and mischief. These are tough images of real people, and Boy with a Fringe: Sandy is a superb example of her uncompromising realism. Boldly but sensitively painted, this portrait has an authority and presence which is unforgettable.
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Brexit in chaos after parliament defeats Johnson's ratification timetable
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Britain's departure from the European Union was thrown into chaos on Tuesday after parliament rejected Prime Minister Boris Johnson's swift timetable to ratify his exit deal, prompting him to halt the legislation while he awaits word from Brussels. As the clock ticks down to the latest October 31 deadline for Britain's departure, Brexit is hanging in the...
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Following a public tender Municipality of Haarlem has awarded a framework agreement to CIMSOLUTIONS in the field of Hire IV Specialists for the lots Management and Architecture, Development and Data & Analysis. The tender is subdivided into 8 lots, of which a maximum of 3 could be awarded per supplier. The assignment starts on April 2019 and has a maximum duration of 4 years.
The municipality of Haarlem has contracted 3 suppliers per lot. The assignments include the delivery of Project, Program and Portfolio Managers, Information Managers, Analysts and Architects, Developers, Testers, Functional and Technical Application Managers, Data Engineers, Analysts and Scientists, Application Architects and BI Consultants.
"We are extremely proud that we have achieved such a good result. Our position within the government and certainly also the local government is growing annually and this framework agreement allows us to grow even further in the coming years," said Moynul Hossain, Managing Director of CIMSOLUTIONS. "We look forward to successfully completing this partnership with the Municipality of Haarlem in the coming years. The Municipality of Haarlem is a client with challenging assignments and projects that we look forward to with great enthusiasm."
In recent years, CIMSOLUTIONS (also in combination with various strategic partners) has already won several important IT hiring contracts, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service, the Repatriation & Departure Service and the Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers, the Education Implementation Service (DUO) Groningen and Zoetermeer, the Ministries of Health, Welfare and Sport and Social Affairs and Employment, the Tax Authorities, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, DICTU, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science itself (administrative department and Heritage Inspection), the Cultural Heritage Agency together with the Inspectorate of Education and the National Archives (together with the Education Council, the Council for Culture and the Advisory Council for Science, Technology and Innovation).
About the Municipality of Haarlem
With around 160,000 inhabitants, the Municipality of Haarlem is one of the fifteen largest municipalities in the Netherlands. Approximately 1350 civil servants work at the municipality, which are divided into 24 departments, each with its own department manager. The organization works for the Haarlem and Zandvoort boards. The municipal organization is headed by the municipal secretary / general director who, together with 3 other directors, forms the management. The municipality of Haarlem is working towards a flexible network organization; for larger issues, the departmental and organizational boundaries are being broadened. The municipality of Haarlem works regionally, with partners inside and outside the city and in constantly changing networks.
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CIMSOLUTIONS provides high-quality services and solutions in the areas of administrative, business, and technical automation. We provide these services to various municipalities, ministries, provinces, other government organizations and the business community through the secondment of IT specialists and the implementation of projects, also under our own responsibility with a result obligation. CIMSOLUTIONS focuses on long-term relationships with its clients and its employees. Due to its development-oriented personnel policy, CIMSOLUTIONS is awarded "Top Employer Netherlands" for the 13th time in 2019 by the Top Employers Institute. CIMSOLUTIONS has over 300 professionals and operates from 7 locations in the Netherlands and its own offshore Development & Test Center in Dhaka (Bangladesh).
CIMSOLUTIONS is ISO 9001:2015 certified for consultancy and secondment as well as project implementation and is a financially very healthy company, focused on delivering quality and highly skilled in the field of professional ICT services to government and business organizations. In addition, CIMSOLUTIONS NEN 4400-1 is certified to minimize the risks associated with hiring temporary staff.
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(thanks to BobK) Adapted from
FIGURES OF SPEECH USED IN THE BIBLE: EXPLAINED AND ILLUSTRATED.
Bullinger, E. W. (1898). Figures of speech used in the Bible (p. 349). London; New York: Eyre & Spottiswoode; E. & J. B. Young & Co.
5. Repetition of Subjects
Parallelism; or, Parallel Lines
This form of sacred writing has been noted from the earliest times. De Rossi, a learned Jew of the sixteenth century, first published a mass of information on the subject in a remarkable work, Meor Enajim (i.e., The Light of the Eyes)( Kitto. Bib. Cyc. III. 702.). Bishop Lowth (Lowth’s Translation of Isaiah, Prel. Dis. p. xxviii. (15th Ed. 1857) translated chapter 60, which deals with the construction of lines: and Bishop Jebb in his Sacred Literature extended the study. But none of these got beyond Parallelism as it is applied to lines. This has universally gone under the name of, and been treated as, Poetry.
It is a form of the figure Synonymia, by which the subject of one line is repeated in the next line in different, but so-called, synonymous terms.
Parallelism is of seven kinds: three simple and four complex:—
I. Simple.
1. Synonymous or Gradational.
2. Antithetic or Opposite.
3. Synthetic or Constructive.
II. Complex.
1. Alternate. Two lines repeated only once (four lines in all).
2. Repeated Alternation. Two lines repeated more than once.
3. Extended Alternation. Three or more lines repeated.
4. Introverted.
4. Introverted Parallelisms – Page 356 – 362
This is when the parallel lines are so placed that if there be six lines, the first corresponds with the sixth, the second with the fifth, and the third with the fourth.
When this Introversion consists only of words and of the same words, it is called Epanodos (q.v).
When Propositions are introverted, it is called Antimetabole (q.v).
When Subjects are introverted, it is called Chiasmus (see under Correspondence).
Gen. 3:19.—
a End. “Till thou return unto the ground.”
b Origin. “For out of it was thou taken.”
b Origin. “For dust thou art.”
a End. “And unto dust shalt thou return.”
Ex. 9:31.—
a “And the flax
b and the barley was smitten:
b For the barley was in the ear,
a and the flax was bolled.”
Examples in Bullinger’s book.
Gen 3:19
Ex 9:31
Num 15: 35,36
Deut 32:16
1Sam 1:2
2 Sam 3:1
2Chron 32:7,
Prov 1:26-27
Prov 3:16
Isa 5:7
Isa 6:10
Isa 51:8-9
Dan 5:19
Mt 6:24
Mt 7:6
Rom 9:21-23
1Cor 1:24,25
2Cor 1:3
2Cor 8:14
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Howard Pinder says:
What term is defined by the combining of 2 or more scriptures into one : ” … Thou hast made a covenant with thy chosen therefore with cords of loving kindness have I drawn thee …”
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At Chicago comic cons and beyond, artist alley is a place to network, connect with fans and make money
By Christopher Borrelli
Mar 27, 2019 | 7:00 AM
Artist alley at C2E2 (the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo) is lined with fans buying art, meeting artists and commissioning work. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
Artist Alley, which sat at the back of McCormick Place during the C2E2 comic con last weekend, is an art gallery and a market, a meeting spot and a networking function. It’s also a caste system, a source of income for the artists who spend their days there and once upon a time, it was the heartbeat of every comic book convention. Elsewhere, it goes by different names, but there’s an Artist Alley at pretty much every pop-culture convention on the planet. It’s where artists and writers of pop-centric stuff sell their works and sign autographs and accept commissions and hope to raise their profiles.
And depending who you ask, it’s still the heart of any good comic-book convention. Or becoming endangered ground.
Should you attend any of the nine zillion comic cons in Chicago this year, somewhere among the celebrities and the cosplay and the panels, you may stumble across an artist alley. What you will see is an ecosystem of friends and strangers, all vying for your eye.
Ali Cantarella, of Chicago, a four-year veteran of C2E2‘s Artist Alley, sat at booth W9.
“Like the tax form,” she noted.
She just came from an artist alley at Emerald City Comic Con in Seattle; later this week she heads to an artist alley at Planet Comicon in Kansas City. “I factor in travel costs, I factor in how much a table costs at a convention. Breaking even is not an option. I know I have to make a profit. And (artist alleys) are a reliable source of income. But never my only source.” On her table, and hanging behind her, were her comics, her watercolors and examples of the $200 pet portraits that she paints on commission.
Ali Cantarella at C2E2's artist alley, where artists can meet fans and sell merchandise at conventions like this. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
“When comic conventions were still young,” she said, “artist alleys were full of comic professionals and their fans. There were no prints of artwork hanging. A lot of the work was original. And artists didn’t see an artist alley as a place to build their careers. It was supplemental for most of them. Now some artists go show to show and make a living.”
C2E2’s artist alley is one of the largest on the circuit.
Walk through — or rather squeeze through the crushing mix of cosplay Spider-Men and Jon Snows, cultural tourists, hardcore comic-book fans and the merely curious — and you’re looking at hundreds and hundreds of artists, arranged in rows labeled A to Z, independents alongside contract professionals for Marvel and DC, craft-fair veterans and upstarts, legendary creators of superheroes seated beside the modestly talented.
Some quietly fume at being placed in the back of the hall, farthest from the entrance; customers, they gripe, have already spent their money by the time they reach them. Others are happy, seated beside old friends. Most have paid for a table ($425 at C2E2), but a handful (less than 20 percent) are given to established names who serve as draws to the convention; they get their artist alley spot for free.
“Please don’t say I was comped my table,” one artist asked me. “It turns into a whole jealousy thing with artists, and I wanted to use some of this time to see those friends.”
Within a couple of hours of the convention opening on Friday, artist alley was bustling. Artists were hunched over folding tables finishing commissioned work, chatting with friends and sitting patiently, waiting for anyone to stop by.
Dan Dougherty, a longtime Chicago artist who sells his work around the country at about 12 artist alleys a year, stood behind stacks of his comics, featuring characters that he created. But hanging on a display behind him, prints of Winnie-the-Pooh and friends, reinterpreted by Dougherty as Jedis and Spider-Men and “Game of Thrones” warriors.
“The reality,” he said, “is you have to offer people something they recognize before you can hope to get them interested in characters they don’t know.”
A row away was Jill Thompson, a longtime Andersonville writer and artist known for “Wonder Woman” and her own “Scary Godmother” books. She stood at a drafting table.
Jill Thompson, longtime Andersonville writer and artist, said, "I don’t do as many (artist alleys) now. I want to be drawing my own characters, not standing here to get asked to draw someone else’s characters.” (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
“This is super hard,” she said, drawing a pair of Marvel’s Inhumans on commission. She didn’t stop. She talked and worked: “Really super hard, because if you have one of these tables, you’re creating merchandise for the show before the show, you’re selling merchandise at the show, you’re often acting as your own cash register, you’re doing panels (about comic books) when you’re not at the table. You’re drawing constantly here. You get people who walk up and ask you to draw Super so-and-so, you get people who want to know if you finished a drawing they asked you for two hours earlier. So I don’t do as many (artist alleys) now. I want to be drawing my own characters, not standing here to get asked to draw someone else’s characters.”
Imagine being a musician, and having a sizable following, but being asked all the time to play mostly covers.
The origin of every comic book convention begins with artist alley. At first the comic con was rows and rows of collectors trotting out acid-free archival boxes of comics, trading, selling. And rows and rows of artists meeting other artists, and showing their work. Then, particularly during the past decade as the superhero movie became a dominant entertainment genre, the comic con was struck by lighting — in form of celebrities, branding and marketing machines.
The public grew less self-conscious about geekdom.
Victor Dandridge, a Columbus, Ohio-based comic-book artist (and former artist alley coordinator for the Wizard World comic con in Rosemont), said, “the artist alley used to be mainly for people in the know.” He describes the artist alley of decades ago as awash in “old comic creators who were waiting around to die,” carrying little savings, receiving zero royalties from iconic characters they created, showing up at artist alleys with portfolios of original art to sell for peanuts.” But during the comic industry boom of the ‘90s, “artists saw artist alley as a market, and a place to build a fan base, and maybe sell something outside the typical comic book publishers” — meaning, Marvel and DC.
The comic book writer Victor Dandridge at his table at artist alley. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)
It was also a place, he said, where cartoonists were fans.
He stood on the tips of his toes at C2E2 and craned his neck to see across artist alley. “Chris Claremont (often credited with turning the X-Men and Wolverine into a beloved Marvel powerhouse) is here, and if Chris Claremont had to pay for his own table at C2E2, I will fight someone!”
Actually, Claremont sat across from George Perez and Marv Wolfman, who created a body of work between them (Daredevil, the Avengers, Wonder Woman, Teen Titans) that defined comic books for decades. They sat near much less established artists. Claremont, 68, stared down a long line of autograph seekers and said: “As a writer, these (artist alleys) do get you out of the house. But it’s also invaluable to me in another way. I’m meeting three generations of readers of my books, and the enthusiasm they show, it’s exactly what eggs you on to do more work.”
On cue, Maurice Townsend of Portland, Ore., his hands weighed with Claremont’s books, stepped to his table: “Mr. Claremont, I wanted to say, you’re my favorite writer.”
If Norman Rockwell had idealized a comic-book convention in the Saturday Evening Post, it might have looked like that.
Gene Ha, a Chicago comics creator known for his work with Alan Moore and his “X-Men” books, said when he first started in comics in the ‘90s, “an artist alley was somewhere happily between a book signing and a place to accept commissions. It was full of people who were all reading the same comic books and could talk about it, and now it’s much broader, and that’s not a complaint — you can reach new audiences now.”
For the past decade or so comic conventions have increasingly relied on movie stars and familiar faces from heavily binged TV series to drive its traffic. And it’s meant comic cons are booming. But it’s also meant, Ha said, that there’s a fear among the comic creators who occupy artist alleys these days, a creeping feeling of disconnect between convention organizers and the initial impulse that made conventions a destination. “You already see some (conventions) squeezing out talent for zombies and side stuff,” Ha said. Indeed, Dan Carroll, a spokesperson for Atlanta’s 32-year-old Dragon Con, said the traditional artist alley is “probably no longer the most important part of many conventions today, yet for a lot of the fans, they always remain the most important part.”
Which means, greater competition within the artist alleys that remain vibrant.
C2E2, operated by Connecticut-based events producer ReedPOP, often gets bonus points from cartoonists for nurturing a rich artist alley at its comic cons, which includes New York Comic Con in the fall. Michael Negin, who organizes artist alley for all ReedPOP shows, said he thinks “artist alley is the heart of the show.” He noted how many TV shows and movies originate with a simple drawing from an artist, “and it’s important that we never loose sight of getting people to understand that.”
The problem is, for an artist, the demand to be included in these spaces often outstrips the size of the convention.
At C2E2 this year, there were 450 spots — and 1,700 applicants for them. Subtract spots given to artists with enough reputation to sell tickets, factor in that C2E2’s artist pool is international, and 450 spots can look meager.
Cantarella said “there are a lot of haters in the (comics) community who talk badly about a show when they can’t get in, and talk badly when they don’t do well there themselves.” But she makes about $2,000 a show, she said. Other comics artists said they make double that. And a handful said they make from $10,000 to $20,000 a show.
Jeffrey Brown, a Chicago artist best know for his family-friendly “Star Wars” comics and books, said he has done a lot of artist alleys “and (has) seen artists very worried about making a certain amount at their tables, but what I have learned is what you gain hanging out with other artists there, and reaching people who didn’t know your work, is more valuable in the long run.” Brown — who did not attend C2E2 this year, but plans to be at Star Wars Celebration in April — said his career, to an extent, took off when a Google employee spotted his work at an artist alley and contracted him to do a Google Doodle for Google’s homepage. But he also knows the downside of this:
“My process involves messing up a lot, and if someone is commissioning you in an artist alley and you don’t get it right that day, I feel badly charging them at all. It gets taxing. Not to mention, a lot of cartoonists are introverts, we get energy sometimes from ourselves, and frankly, in an artist alley, it’s time I’m not meeting my deadlines.”
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You walk through at times overly aware of a needy artist trying to meet your eye. And their work, which rides a zeitgeist of styles and characters, may look great now, but be destined for a closet later. On the other hand, I have a flower pot I bought at an artist alley years ago; inside it are knitted versions of R2-D2 and Chewbacca. It sits on a table in a prominent place in my home, alongside family photos.
It only cost $20.
An artist alley can be that place where people who can’t afford original art buy some sliver of the unique. By Sunday morning at C2E2, Cantarella decided she had a good weekend. Not a lot of downtime, but good sales and a lot of commissions — she landed around 20, at $200 a pop, by Saturday. As she said this, a girl in a dinosaur hoodie pointed to Cantarella’s drawing of a raptor.
A moment later the family wandered off.
Cantarella watched them. “They’ll be back,” she said.
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Prosecutor: Man stabbed to death on CTA train was trying to protect another passenger
By Megan Crepeau, Jeremy Gorner and William Lee
Jul 17, 2019 | 4:10 PM
A man stabbed to death at the Chinatown CTA station over the weekend had been trying to protect another passenger from a knife-wielding attacker, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday.
Troy Johnson, 54, was riding a Red Line train around 3 p.m. Saturday when a man pulled a knife on a passenger across the aisle, according to Assistant State’s Attorney Jim Murphy.
Johnson “jumped up to help” and began struggling with the man with the knife, identified by authorities as Tony Polk, 40, Murphy said. The two shoved each other and the fight spilled onto the train platform, where Polk began to stab and punch Johnson.
Johnson was stabbed once in the chest and once in the arm, and was pronounced dead on the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He had lived in the 600 block of West 103rd Street.
Polk, 40, was ordered held without bail on first-degree murder charges after prosecutors laid out extensive details of the assault, which they said was captured on surveillance video.
Polk and a female friend had been riding the train when Polk “lunged” at his friend’s waistband to grab a knife clipped to her pants, Murphy said.
Polk walked toward another man on the train, who may have gotten into an argument with Polk earlier, according to Murphy. Polk grabbed the man and held the knife to him, according to Murphy. That’s when Johnson intervened and Polk turned his attention to him, Murphy said.
Polk — who was on parole for a 2014 aggravated robbery conviction — fled the Cermak-Chinatown station at 138 W. Cermak Road and ran south on Wentworth Avenue, police said.
Polk’s female friend, whose name was not revealed in court, left the train car once the scuffle got heated, prosecutors said. She met up with Polk later in the day and he told her he had “beat up the guy” on the train. He returned the knife to her, without any blood on it, according to Murphy.
When she looked up information on her phone about the fight on the Red Line, she saw that a man had been fatally stabbed. When she confronted Polk, he said he “did not know that he did that,” Murphy said.
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The next day, after police released photos of persons of interest in the stabbing, the woman saw herself on the news and called police from the Fullerton CTA station, asking them to “pick her up to clear her name,” Murphy said. The woman proceeded to cooperate with the investigation.
Police arrested Polk on the street Monday, the day after releasing the images of the people they were seeking to interview. Prior to Polk being charged, police said the woman was not considered a suspect.
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In December 2014, Polk was sentenced to a Class X mandatory six-year prison sentence for the aggravated robbery conviction — one of three robbery convictions he’s had since 1999, according to court records. But Polk has at least six arrests since January 2018, court records show.
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Hinsdale District 86 referendum supporters spent $401,533 in April 2 campaign
Yard signs telling people to vote no or vote yes were one of the campaign expenses associated with the Hinsdale High School District 86 referendum. (Kimberly Fornek/Pioneer Press)
At least $465,000 was spent in campaigning for and against the Hinsdale High School District 86 referendum, with most of the money raised and spent by supporters of the $140 million bond question.
The committee, D86 Vote Yes on Referendum to Save Our Schools raised $447,872, from Jan. 1 to March 31, more than 12 times the amount the committee campaigning against the referendum raised during that period.
The District 86 Vote No on Tax Increase to Do Better committee raised $35,641, as of March 31, according to reports filed with the Illinois State Board of Elections.
Any donations of $1,000 or more made in the month prior to the April 2 election had to be reported within two business days. Since March 31, the Vote No committee received another $20,000 contribution from Alfred Koplin on April 12, to raise the total receipts to at least $55,641.
The Vote Yes committee reported a $1,000 contribution from McNaughton Development on April 5, raising its total contributions to at least $448,872.
However, the committee refunded $13,260 in contributions as of March 31, which therefore appeared as both a contribution and an expense in the committee’s reports.
The Vote Yes committee also received $94,360 in donated services and materials. Most were items and gift packages donated for a fundraising auction, but supporters also bought campaign buttons and stickers and paid advertising and printing costs.
The Yes committee spent $401,533 of that money as of March 31, with the largest chunk going to the political consulting firm, Hodas & Associates Strategic Communications.
The services listed on Hodas’ website include consulting on political campaigns, advocating for issues and “bolstering the political presence” of organizations and interest groups.
The Yes committee paid the Springfield-based firm $264,247 for a wide range of advertising, such as mailing fliers, digital ads, telemarketing and commercials on Comcast and U-Verse. Hodas made videos and did polling for the yes campaign, too, the committee’s reports show.
The Vote Yes campaign also spent just over $40,000 on advertising in six different newspapers and magazines. Other large expenses were $34,700 for banners and signs, $16,424 to rent Ruth Lake Country Club for a fundraiser and about $9,745 in fees for online fundraising services, such as PayPal.
The Yes committee ended March with about $53,000 in its campaign fund.
The Vote No campaign spent on a much smaller scale, a total of $17,386 as of March 31.
The Hinsdale High School District 86 referendum as it appeared on the ballot April 2. (Kimberly Fornek/Pioneer Press)
Its largest expense was $7,000 paid to the consulting firm Cor Strategies, based in Palatine. Started in 2009, Cor Strategies claims on its website to have become “one of the leading center-right political consulting firms in Illinois,” advising primarily candidates in municipal and state elections, and local civic and issue organizations.
The Vote No campaign also paid Victory Geek $420 on Feb. 25 for telecommunication services. Victory Geek is Cor Strategies’ primary automated dialing firm for doing robocalls, polling and microtargeting, according to Cor Strategies website.
The Vote No committee bought ads in two newspapers, the Hinsdalean and the Clarendon Hills Courier, which cost a total of $3,723, and spent $2,514 for advertising on Facebook.
The No campaign also received donated services, worth $6,201, which included $1,962 paid to Neighbors Media, which publishes Neighbors of Darien, Neighbors of Willowbrook and other magazines and marketing material.
The other donated services were three newspaper ads and food and beverage expenses, all paid for by Atlas Tool and Die Works, Inc., the family business of Burr Ridge Village Board member Zach Mottl, who ran unsuccessfully for Burr Ridge mayor, all the while campaigning against the District 86 referendum.
Having received $35,641 in contributions as of March 31, the Vote No committee ended the quarter with a balance of about $20,817. That was before Koplin’s $20,000 contribution on April 12, matching his prior $20,000 contribution on Feb. 11. Koplin did not return calls asking for comment.
Koplin lists his home as Las Vegas in campaign finance disclosure reports, but he is the president of Hinsdale Management Corp., which leases and manages commercial and residential properties in Burr Ridge, Oak Brook, Elmhurst and Hinsdale, including 15 Spinning Wheel Road and Grant Square shopping center.
Kari Galassi, the campaign manager for the yes side, said she and other people were campaigning for the referendum outside the Walgreen’s store in Grant Square March 2, when Koplin yelled at them to leave.
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Galassi told the police she had asked the manager of the Walgreens for permission to set up a table with referendum material outside the store, but when Koplin saw them he swore at them and said they had to go. The group did leave and Galassi reported the incident to the police, although she did not want the police to contact either Koplin or the man with him, according to the police report.
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The Vote No committee was not the only organized opposition to the referendum. The group Citizens for Clarendon Hills, led by former District 86 School Board member Edward Corcoran, spent $1,090 March 19 on a mailing claiming the $140 million referendum was excessive and wasteful.
Corcoran said the group also spent about $550 on April 1 or 2 for another mailing urging voters to reject the bond proposition.
Much of the support for and opposition to the referendum, however, does not show up on campaign finance disclosure reports, because it was volunteers making phone calls, going door to door, and using emails and social media to lobby voters to their position.
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Mazda piensa en la tracción trasera para el futuro!
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QUE BIEN SUENA ESTO!!!
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Dijeron en FIAT que a final de año podrían anunciar una nueva alianza. Y rumores colocan al futuro GIULIA Y 169 como traccion trasera con una plataforma totalmente nueva.
Mazda Engineers Push for a Return to Rear-Wheel Drive
Mazda engineers are lobbying for revival of rear-wheel-drive models, saying that the strategy would help the Japanese automaker to better differentiate itself against its rivals, Edmunds has learned.
Top management is said to be resistant to the idea, citing the high cost of redesigning its mainstream models.
Mazda might find a partner in Alfa Romeo as it rethinks rear-wheel drive.
LONDON — Mazda engineers are lobbying for revival of rear-wheel-drive models, saying that the strategy would help the Japanese automaker to better differentiate itself against its rivals, Edmunds has learned.
The push is coming from many of Mazda's senior and middle-ranking engineers. Products like the rear-wheel-drive Mazda RX-8 have been discontinued as the automaker focuses on front-wheel drive models. Mainstream models such as the 2014 Mazda 6 are front-wheel-drive.
Insiders at the company believe that this rear-wheel-drive strategy would produce more distinctive cars that are more fun to drive and would align more closely with the visual and dynamic character of the company's successful MX-5 Miata and RX series.
However, Mazda's top management is said to be resistant to the idea because of the cost of designing fresh architectures for its mainstream models.
Mazda might also find a partner in Alfa Romeo as it mulls the benefits of rear-wheel drive. The two are already collaborating on sports cars, including a new Alfa Spider to be derived from the next-generation MX-5.
The Italian brand is also said to be investigating rear-wheel drive for some of its mainstream models. However, there's no evidence yet of a deepening collaboration, and given the success that Mazda is enjoying with its current, predominantly front-drive range, a major switch to rear-drive looks unlikely in the immediate future
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Marie-Eve Tremblay is a travel junkie who finds inspiration in her trips abroad, be it from nature or situations in everyday life. Her take on the world is full of affection and humour, and her images are set apart by their warm tones, curious candour, and gentle whimsy.
Here's a series of illustrations for the kit of an educational game dedicated to teachers and used to explain the electrical network. It's also used to educate children about energy efficiency in the village of La Romaine, an Innu Indian reserve in northern Quebec. This illustrative work was created by Marie-Eve Tremblay, and it's the Code Agency that designated and coordinated the entire project for Hydro-Québec.
Tendances Magazine
Marie-Eve illustrated LaSer group Tendances magazine. She had to illustrate a special file on french people relationship with credit, especially after the subprimes crisis. She mastered the concept and the final result is clearly represented, sophisticated and humoristic.
Contact Magazine
Marie-Eve Tremblay illustrated an article explaning all about patents for the fall issue of Contact Magazine published by Laval University.
Coup de Pouce and Laval University Contact Magazine
Here is a new illustration by Marie-Eve Tremblay for Laval University Contact Magazine. She illustrated, again with a lot of humor, an article about people who are happy to serve the Scientific Research by offering their services as human guinea-pigs.
Below, is following another illustration of a female tightrope walker holding a friend of hers in her hand. This one was creating, still by Marie-EVe, for a new Coup de Pouce Magazine Personal Life column, in which some advices to help your friends without getting personally affected are given.
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Editorial illustration, digital & drawing style, to accompagny an article on how to say no, for Coup de Pouce Magazine.
Easter Island, Cuba, Paris.. There's a smell of holiday in the air! Here is a series of touristic locations illustrated by Marie-Eve Tremblay for different information tools (Facebook page, brochures, mobile apps, etc.) including the travel.gc.ca website created on the Government of Canada's initiative and addressed to Canadians travelling or living abroad.
Series of 4 corporative illustrations for Roche Bobois New York, these illustrations will appear in the private section of the website and can only be viewed by the client's members. Project produced in collaboration with Espresso Communication & Design.
400 coups Publishing
Discover the adventures of a bad-tempered chick, illustrated by Marie-Eve Tremblay in this first book titled La vengeresse masquée et le Loup (The Masked Avenger and the Wolf), written by Pierrette Dubé and published by Les 400 coups.
Illustrated book for Éditions Mic Mac
Marie-Eve was the first at the clinic to work with the publishing company Éditions Mic Mac for a fully illustrated children book. Here are some excerpts from the book COW la petite vache cache ses taches (the small cow hiding her spots), the story of a well determined cow. She also illustrated the book Cocci la petite coccinelle cherche ses taches (the small ladybug looking for her spots).
Max Malo à Vol d'Oiseau - Québec Amérique Publishers
Marie-Eve Tremblay was chosen to illustrate Max Malo's new adventures in the third tome of the series titled à vol d'oiseau and written by Bertrand Gauthier. The book is published by Québec Amérique jeunesse.
From the beginning I regarded Colagene as one of my favorite illustrator agencies. I love the variety of their artists and, always important to a photo editor, the people at Colagene are always friendly and helpful.
Ellen Reddy Photo Editor Cosmopolitan Germany
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Matthew Elliott: The 2012 Watchdog
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Matthew Elliott is Chief Executive of the TaxPayers’ Alliance.
Five years from today, the torch for the 2012 London Olympic Games will
be lit. It is still unclear whether British taxpayers will have much
to celebrate. Over the last two years the initial excitement at
winning the Games has subsided and is being replaced by a growing
distrust of the entire project.
While a majority still support the 2012 Games, the number disagreeing
with the statement “the benefit to Britain of having the Olympics here
is well worth the money it will cost to stage the games” had risen by 9
per cent according to a Populus poll in November 2006. Central to this
growing disillusionment is that people are becoming increasingly aware
of just how much they might have to pay. 87% of them expected the
budget to rise; they may not have expected it to rise as much as it
did (We will be re-polling these questions later in the summer. Watch
this space!).
When the Olympics was first announced it was going to cost just £2.4 billion and that sum was going to come from the National Lottery and an additional levy on London council taxpayers. Now, the Olympics are set to cost £9.4 billion and £6 billion of that is to come from general taxation.
There have been a number of reasons for the Olympics going over budget. First, the initial budget was massively flawed. As the Public Accounts Committee noted, it didn’t include whole categories of cost like tax. Looking back, it really does appear to have been a back-of-a-fag-packet calculation that was totally unrealistic.
What’s worse, there has already been a catalogue of mistakes and misfortunes in the running of this project that have pushed the cost up further. The unelected quango running the project thought nothing about blowing £400,000 on a bizarre logo no-one liked. A further £100,000 was spent sending lucky MPs on visits to countries that had previously hosted the games – as if this made any difference at all.
However, the biggest problems are due to poor management practice. It is beginning to look like the Olympic Delivery Authority, the Olympics Minister and the Civil Servants in charge lack the management experience to deliver the Games on time and on budget. Jack Lemley, Chairman of the Olympic Delivery Agency until last October, quit saying “I went there to build things, not to sit and talk about it.” Edward Leigh also saw problems with the project’s management, remarking: “There is no single person in overall control”.
All this could mean further rises in the budget of the Olympics. The TaxPayers’ Alliance has looked at Athens. If London were to repeat the more than five-fold rise there we could see a budget as high as £12.6 billion.
A new campaign we have established – the 2012 Watchdog – will keep a close eye on 2012 and hold politicians accountable if costs rise further. We will monitor closely any signs that they are hiding costs in other budgets to conceal over-runs. We will represent taxpayers throughout Britain who should not wind up paying over the odds thanks to blank cheques written by their government. Hopefully we can do our bit to make sure that £9.4 billion really is the final budget for the 2012 Olympics.
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Consulting firm Dufrain seeking 50 new BI consultants
11 September 2015 Consultancy.uk
To meet the fast growing demand for its services Dufrain Consulting, a specialist in the field of business intelligence, has launched a large recruitment campaign. In the coming months the advisory firm is seeking to add more than 50 new consultants to its payroll as it opens offices in Manchester and Dublin in the near future.
Dufrain Consulting was founded by Michael Gilmartin and Stephen Henry in 2009. Prior to founding the firm Gilmartin served a range of business from small Scottish companies to large US corporations, working in a variety of sectors from Finance and Energy to Hospitality and Technology. Co-founder Henry most recently worked as a Senior Consultant at the Scottish company Business & Decision, as well as a Solutions Architect at dunnhumby. Since its inception five year ago, the firm has under the leadership of Gilmartin and Henry* grown to a team of 85 consultants based in Edinburgh and London. Dufrain Consulting has a strong focus on data automation, information management and risk management, the consultancy working with a wide range of BI platforms to provide its services.
In the early years, the firm has predominantly been helping large banks manage their troves of data, through a process of merging that data into a single port of call. The firm has enjoyed strong growth since, even if it faced “challenging moments” in its formative period, benefitting from the recent spate of regulatory requirements placed on banks from the UK Government as well as wider European banking frameworks. The requirements have forced financial institutions to better process data from multiple sources such as credit card, savings and loan histories, for which the firm offers tailored solutions.
In recent years, Dufrain Consulting diversified its industry focus, and at the moment around one third of the firm’s clients come from outside the financial sector – a market valued at nearly $100 billion globally. “Regulatory requirements are increasing across all industries, and even smaller organisations need to ensure the information they are providing is complete and accurate,” says Gilmartin. “We have been adding clients from the pharmaceutical sector, oil and gas, and universities as well. All of these organisations have loads of information, but are not able to use it effectively.”
In May this year, Dufrain Consulting’s revenue hit £4.2 million, and looking ahead the co-founders have set ambitious goals. Thrusted by high demand for tech consulting and in particular business intelligence, with data analystics, regulatory and compliance the main drivers, Gilmartin and Henry expect to see firm growth in the coming 12 months of up to 80% to around £8 million, as the company continues to add clients and expand its base.
The growth is accompanied by the opening of new sites around the UK, with an office in Manchester to open soon to house the eight new employees already hired as well as twenty more expected over the coming year. The firm is too planning to expand its operations further afield in the UK, with its first Europe wide expansion planned for Dublin to follow. In total the firm expects to hire 50 new staff over the six months for placements in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Leeds, Manchester and Dublin.
So far, the expansion of the firm has been organic, however, acquisitions are not off the table in the company’s bid to grow. “It is all about growth. We started as two people with an idea and have quickly expanded into a profitable business from there,” concludes Gilmartin.
* The management team of Dufrain Consulting currently consists of Michael Gilmartin, Stephen Henry, Steven Miller, Paul Oprea and Nicholas McFadden.
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Home > Celebs > Lupita Nyong’o to Produce and Star in the Film Adaptation of Trevor Noah’s Book
Lupita Nyong’o to Produce and Star in the Film Adaptation of Trevor Noah’s Book
We can’t help but feel proud AF RN!??
by Lisa Katz
There’s just no stopping actress Lupita Nyong’o! As if her ongoing success with Black Panther isn’t enough, she’s just announced that she’ll be starring in and producing the film adaptation of Trevor Noah’s book – Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood.
Lupita will play Trevor’s mom, Patricia, in the The Daily Show host’s bestselling debut autobiography that was released in 2016.
She shared the exciting news on Instagram, saying: ‘When I read @TrevorNoah‘s “Born A Crime,” I could not put the book down. Excited to announce that I will be starring in and producing its feature film adaptation! #BornACrime‘
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When I read @TrevorNoah's "Born A Crime," I could not put the book down. Excited to announce that I will be starring in and producing its feature film adaptation! #BornACrime
A post shared by Lupita Nyong'o (@lupitanyongo) on Feb 21, 2018 at 2:31pm PST
As much as this is an incredible opportunity for Lupita, we can’t help but feel proud AF of Trevor RN!
The fact that his life will be documented in film is a big deal! And to have an Academy Award winner play a lead and produce it is incredible!
According to Sowetan Live, we can expect a second book from the South African comedian and television host in November this year, as well.
Congratulations, Trevor and Lupita!
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Sundance Announces Genre Slate
Grace Moon
By Ryan Turek
Grace, Dead Snow to premiere!
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films screening at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the out-of-competition sections of Premieres, Spectrum, New Frontier, and Park City at Midnight.
Celebrating its 25th year, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival runs January 15th -25th in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance, Utah. A complete list of the films is available at Sundance Institute’s website at Sundance.org/festival.
Here are the genre films (of the straight-up horror/thriller variety) we’ve had on our radar that are premiering at the fest. Click on the titles for more details!
Moon / UK (Director: Duncan Jones; Screenwriter: Nathan Parker) — Before returning to Earth after three years on the moon, things go horribly wrong for astronaut Sam Bell. Cast: Sam Rockwell, Kevin Spacey. World Premiere
Død Snø (Dead Snow) / Norway (Director: Tommy Wirkola; Screenwriters: Tommy Wirkola and Stig Frode Henriksen) — A group of teenagers had all they needed for a successful ski vacation; cabin, skis, snowmobile, toboggan, copious amounts of beer and a fertile mix of the sexes. Certainly, none of them anticipated not returning home alive! However, the Nazi-zombie battalion haunting the mountains had other plans. Cast: Vegard Hoel, Stig Frode Henriksen, Charlotte Frogner, Jenny Skavlan, Jeppe Beck Laursen. North American Premiere
Grace / USA(Director and Screenwriter: Paul Solet) — After losing her unborn child, Madeline Matheson insists on carrying the baby to term. Following the delivery, the child miraculously returns to life, but when the baby develops a desperate appetite for human blood, Madeline is faced with a mother’s ultimate decision. Cast: Jordan Ladd, Samantha Ferris, Gabrielle Rose, Malcom Stewart, Stephen Park, Serge Houde. World Premiere
The Killing Room / USA (Director: Jonathan Liebesman; Screenwriters: Gus Krieger and Ann Peacock) — Four individuals sign up for a psychological research study only to discover that they are now subjects of a brutal, classified government program. Cast: Chloe Sevigny, Peter Stormare, Clea DuVall, Timothy Hutton, Nick Cannon. World Premiere
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Representative Andrew Young (1932 - )In Congress 1973 - 1979
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Georgia 5 House: 93rd-95th (1973-1979)
Legislation Sponsored or Cosponsored by Andrew Young
Passed One Chamber Became Law
1. H.R.1746 — 95th Congress (1977-1978) A bill to amend the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to halt the importation of Rhodesian chrome. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 01/11/1977) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - International Relations Latest Action: 03/18/1977 Public law 95-12. (All Actions) Tracker:
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2. H.R.12927 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A bill to designate a Federal building and U.S. Post Office in Jasper, Ga., as the Phil M. Landrum Federal Building and Post Office. Sponsor: Rep. Ginn, Bo [D-GA-1] (Introduced 03/31/1976) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Public Works and Transportation | Senate - Public Works Latest Action: 10/14/1976 Public law 94-498. (All Actions) Tracker:
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3. H.R.11455 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) An Act to amend the act establishing the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore to provide for the expansion of the lakeshore, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Fithian, Floyd J. [D-IN-2] (Introduced 01/22/1976) Cosponsors: (24) Committees: House - Interior and Insular Affairs | Senate - Interior and Insular Affairs Latest Action: 10/18/1976 Public law 94-549. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-08-30 [displayText] => Reported to Senate from the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs with amendment, S. Rept. 94-1189. [externalActionCode] => 14000 [description] => Introduced )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-02-17 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, roll call #57 (272-118). [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Passed House )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-09-24 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended, roll call #646 (74-0). [externalActionCode] => 17000 [description] => Passed Senate )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-09-29 [displayText] => Resolving differences -- House actions: House agreed to Senate amendment. [externalActionCode] => 19500 [description] => Resolving Differences )
4. H.Res.1221 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 13555. A bill to amend the Federal Metal and Nonmetallic Mine Safety Act and to transfer certain functions relating to coal mine health and safety under the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 05/26/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 06/29/1976 Measure passed House, roll call #482 (363-36). (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-05-26 [displayText] => Reported to House from the Committee on Rules, H. Rept. 94-1198. [externalActionCode] => 5000 [description] => Introduced )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-06-29 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, roll call #482 (363-36). [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Agreed to in House )
5. H.Res.1204 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 13680. A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Foreign Military Sales Act. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 05/18/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 05/19/1976 Measure passed House, roll call #284 (350-35). (All Actions) Tracker:
6. H.Res.1203 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 13589. A bill to authorize appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 05/18/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 06/09/1976 Measure passed House, roll call #346 (387-1). (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-06-09 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, roll call #346 (387-1). [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Agreed to in House )
7. H.Res.1166 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 9043. A bill to authorize employees and agencies of the Government of the United States to experiment with flexible and compressed work schedules as alternatives to present work schedules. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 04/28/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 05/06/1976 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-05-06 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House. [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Agreed to in House )
8. H.Res.1157 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 12234. A bill to amend the Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, as amended, and to amend the Act of October 15, 1966, to establish a program for the preservation of additional historical properties throughout the Nation, as amended. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 04/13/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 05/04/1976 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
9. H.Res.1090 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 12226, a bill to amend the Peace Corps Act. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 03/15/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 03/22/1976 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-03-15 [displayText] => Reported to House from the Committee on Rules, H. Rept. 94-902. [externalActionCode] => 5000 [description] => Introduced )
10. H.Res.1089 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 12046, a bill to provide for relief and rehabilitation assistance to the victims of the earthquakes in Guatemala. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 03/15/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 03/22/1976 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
11. H.Res.1088 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 11598, a bill to authorize appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency for fiscal year 1976 and for the period July 1, 1976, through September 30, 1976. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 03/15/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 03/24/1976 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
12. H.Res.1040 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of House Joint Resolution 280, a joint resolution to amend the Constitution to provide for representation of the District of Columbia in the Congress. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 02/18/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 03/16/1976 Measure passed House, roll call #108 (313-72). (All Actions) Tracker:
13. H.Res.965 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 6721. A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 01/20/1976) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 01/21/1976 Measure passed House, roll call #9 (386-12). (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1976-01-21 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, roll call #9 (386-12). [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Agreed to in House )
14. H.Res.870 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 8578. A bill to amend the Community Services Act of 1974 to increase the Federal share of financial assistance to community action agencies. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 11/18/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 11/19/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
15. H.Res.817 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 9721. A bill to provide for increased participation by the United States in the Inter-American Development Bank, to provide for the entry of nonregional members and the Bahamas and Guyana, in the Inter-American Development Bank, to provide for the participation of the United States in the African Development Fund. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 10/22/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 12/08/1975 Measure passed House, roll call #750 (353-24). (All Actions) Tracker:
16. H.Res.775 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution providing for the consideration of H.J. Res. 683. Joint resolution to implement the U.S. proposal for the early-warning system in Sinai. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 10/07/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 10/08/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
17. H.Res.722 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 1287. A bill to amend the United Nations Participation Act of 1945 to halt the importation of Rhodesian chrome. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 09/18/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 09/25/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
18. H.Res.715 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 8757. A bill authorizing additional appropriations for prosecution of projects in certain comprehensive river basin plans for flood control and navigation. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 09/10/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 09/19/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
19. H.Res.713 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 5620. A bill to amend the act of August 20, 1963, as amended, relating to the construction of mint buildings. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 09/10/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 09/19/1975 Measure passed House, amended. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1975-09-19 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended. [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Agreed to in House )
20. H.Res.707 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 9005. A bill to authorize assistance for disaster relief and rehabilitation, to provide for overseas distribution and production of agricultural commodities, to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 09/09/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 09/10/1975 Measure passed House, roll call #504 (358-41). (All Actions) Tracker:
21. H.Res.650 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 8731. A bill to amend and extend the Council on Wage and Price Stability. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 07/29/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 07/31/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
22. H.Res.624 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 6844. A bill to amend the Consumer Product Safety Act. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 07/22/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 07/28/1975 Measure passed House, roll call #445 (387-22). (All Actions) Tracker:
23. H.Res.603 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 6673. A bill to provide for the establishment of an American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 07/15/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 09/08/1975 Measure passed House, roll call #498 (361-6). (All Actions) Tracker:
24. H.Res.602 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 5328. A bill to authorize the Smithsonian Institution to plan museum support facilities. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 07/15/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 09/03/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
25. H.Res.534 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution providing for the consideration of H.R. 7500, a bill to authorize appropriations for the Department of State. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 06/11/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 06/23/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
26. H.Res.469 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A bill to amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to extend certain provisions for an additional 10 years, to make permanent the ban against certain prerequisites to voting. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 05/14/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 06/02/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
27. H.Res.446 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A bill to prohibit the Federal Home Loan Bank Board from permitting Federal savings and loan associations to offer loans secured by one to four homes or dwellings with variable interest rates. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 05/07/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 05/08/1975 Measure passed House, roll call #191 (392-0). (All Actions) Tracker:
28. H.Res.385 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) Resolution for the consideration of H.R. 46. A bill to provide for the development and implementation of programs for youth camp safety. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 04/09/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 04/17/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
29. H.Res.342 — 94th Congress (1975-1976) A bill to amend the Developmental Disabilities Services and Facilities Construction Act to revise and extend the programs authorized by that act. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 03/19/1975) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Rules Latest Action: House - 04/10/1975 Measure passed House. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1975-03-19 [displayText] => Reported to House from the committee on Rules, H. Rept. 94-95. [externalActionCode] => 5000 [description] => Introduced )
30. H.R.15264 — 93rd Congress (1973-1974) Export Administration Act Amendments Sponsor: Rep. Ashley, Thomas L. [D-OH-9] (Introduced 06/06/1974) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Banking Latest Action: House - 08/13/1974 Measure laid on table in House, S. 3792 passed in lieu. (All Actions) Tracker:
This bill has the status Passed House
Array ( [actionDate] => 1974-06-19 [displayText] => Reported to House from the Committee on Banking and Currency, H. Rept. 93-1122. [externalActionCode] => 5000 [description] => Introduced )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1974-08-13 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #484 (379-6). [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Passed House )
31. H.R.12035 — 93rd Congress (1973-1974) An Act to suspend until the close of June 30, 1975, the duty on certain carboxymethyl cellulose salts, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Young, Andrew [D-GA-5] (Introduced 12/19/1973) Cosponsors: (0) Committees: House - Ways and Means | Senate - Finance Latest Action: 10/26/1974 Public law 93-483. (All Actions) Tracker:
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Array ( [actionDate] => 1974-08-13 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended. [externalActionCode] => 17000 [description] => Passed Senate )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1974-10-15 [displayText] => [externalActionCode] => 20000 [description] => Resolving Differences )
32. H.R.9989 — 93rd Congress (1973-1974) Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act Sponsor: Rep. Stephens, Robert G., Jr. [D-GA-10] (Introduced 08/03/1973) Cosponsors: (14) Committees: House - Banking Latest Action: House - 08/14/1974 Measure laid on table in House, S. 3164 passed in lieu. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1974-07-03 [displayText] => Reported to House from the Committee on Banking and Currency with amendment, H. Rept. 93-1177. [externalActionCode] => 5000 [description] => Introduced )
33. H.R.8548 — 93rd Congress (1973-1974) A bill to amend the International Economic Policy Act of 1972 to change the membership of the Council on International Economic Policy, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Ashley, Thomas L. [D-OH-9] (Introduced 06/08/1973) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: House - Banking Latest Action: House - 06/28/1973 Measure laid on table in House, S. 1636 passed in lieu. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1973-06-22 [displayText] => Reported to House from the Committee on Banking and Currency, H. Rept. 93-318. [externalActionCode] => 5000 [description] => Introduced )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1973-06-28 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, amended, roll call #311 (322-62). [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Passed House )
34. H.R.6912 — 93rd Congress (1973-1974) A bill to amend the Par Value Modification Act, and for other purposes. Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Henry B. [D-TX-20] (Introduced 04/12/1973) Cosponsors: (11) Committees: House - Banking Latest Action: 09/21/1973 Public law 93-110. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 1973-05-29 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: Measure passed House, roll call #163 (281-36). [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Passed House )
Array ( [actionDate] => 1973-05-30 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Measure passed Senate, amended, (with provisions of S. 929). [externalActionCode] => 17000 [description] => Passed Senate )
35. H.R.6452 — 93rd Congress (1973-1974) Urban Mass Transportation Assistance Act Sponsor: Rep. Minish, Joseph G. [D-NJ-11] (Introduced 04/02/1973) Cosponsors: (8) Committees: House - Banking Latest Action: House - 10/03/1973 Measure laid on table in House, S. 386 passed in lieu. (All Actions) Tracker:
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36. H.R.6168 — 93rd Congress (1973-1974) A bill to amend and extend the Economic Stabilization Act of 1970. Sponsor: Rep. Patman, Wright [D-TX-1] (Introduced 03/27/1973) Cosponsors: (19) Committees: House - Banking Latest Action: House - 04/16/1973 Measure laid on table in House, S. 398 passed in lieu. (All Actions) Tracker:
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1. S.2722 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) SWAG Act Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (Introduced 10/29/2019) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 10/29/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
2. S.2177 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act Sponsor: Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Reports: S. Rept. 116-154 Latest Action: Senate - 10/28/2019 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 275. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 2019-10-28 [displayText] => Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with amendments. With written report No. 116-154. [externalActionCode] => 14000 [description] => Introduced )
3. S.2175 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Acting on the Annual Duplication Report Act of 2019 Sponsor: Sen. Hassan, Margaret Wood [D-NH] (Introduced 07/18/2019) Cosponsors: (1) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 07/18/2019 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
4. S.565 — 116th Congress (2019-2020) Billion Dollar Boondoggle Act of 2019 Sponsor: Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] (Introduced 02/26/2019) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 11/06/2019 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably. (All Actions) Tracker:
5. S.3251 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Federal Acquisition Savings Act of 2018 Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] (Introduced 07/19/2018) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Reports: S. Rept. 115-383 Latest Action: Senate - 11/26/2018 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 669. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 2018-11-26 [displayText] => Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 115-383. [externalActionCode] => 14000 [description] => Introduced )
6. S.3031 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Federal Personal Property Management Act of 2018 Sponsor: Sen. Peters, Gary C. [D-MI] (Introduced 06/07/2018) Cosponsors: (5) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Reports: S. Rept. 115-343 Latest Action: 01/03/2019 Became Public Law No: 115-419. (TXT | PDF) (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 2018-12-12 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7525-7526; text: CR S7525-7526) [externalActionCode] => 17000 [description] => Passed Senate )
Array ( [actionDate] => 2018-12-21 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 383 - 1 (Roll no. 481).(text CR H10526-10527) [externalActionCode] => 8000 [description] => Passed House )
7. S.951 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017 Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] (Introduced 04/26/2017) Cosponsors: (9) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Reports: S. Rept. 115-208 Latest Action: Senate - 02/14/2018 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 312. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 2018-02-14 [displayText] => Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 115-208. Minority views filed. [externalActionCode] => 14000 [description] => Introduced )
8. S.126 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Repeal ID Act of 2017 Sponsor: Sen. Daines, Steve [R-MT] (Introduced 01/12/2017) Cosponsors: (2) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 01/12/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
9. S.56 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) RED Tape Act of 2017 Sponsor: Sen. Sullivan, Dan [R-AK] (Introduced 01/05/2017) Cosponsors: (17) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 01/05/2017 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
10. S.34 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) Midnight Rules Relief Act of 2017 Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Ron [R-WI] (Introduced 01/05/2017) Cosponsors: (6) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Reports: S. Rept. 115-164 Latest Action: Senate - 10/05/2017 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 233. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 2017-10-05 [displayText] => Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Johnson without amendment. With written report No. 115-164. Minority views filed. [externalActionCode] => 14000 [description] => Introduced )
11. S.Res.715 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) A resolution honoring the life of President George Herbert Walker Bush. Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] (Introduced 12/05/2018) Cosponsors: (99) Latest Action: Senate - 12/06/2018 Message on Senate action sent to the House. (All Actions) Tracker:
Array ( [actionDate] => 2018-12-05 [displayText] => Passed/agreed to in Senate: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S7322; text: CR S7321-7322) [externalActionCode] => 17000 [description] => Agreed to in Senate )
12. S.Res.485 — 115th Congress (2017-2018) A resolution honoring the life of First Lady Barbara Bush. Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX] (Introduced 04/25/2018) Cosponsors: (99) Latest Action: Senate - 04/25/2018 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions) Tracker:
13. S.3472 — 114th Congress (2015-2016) Poverty Measurement Improvement Act Sponsor: Sen. Lee, Mike [R-UT] (Introduced 11/17/2016) Cosponsors: (3) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 11/17/2016 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
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22. S.2809 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) A bill to require the Environmental Protection Agency to obtain a court order to garnish wages to pay a nontax debt. Sponsor: Sen. Johanns, Mike [R-NE] (Introduced 09/15/2014) Cosponsors: (11) Committees: Senate - Judiciary Latest Action: Senate - 09/15/2014 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
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24. S.2113 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Taxpayers Right-To-Know Act Sponsor: Sen. Coburn, Tom [R-OK] (Introduced 03/12/2014) Cosponsors: (38) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Reports: S. Rept. 113-243 Latest Action: Senate - 08/26/2014 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 531. (All Actions) Tracker:
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25. S.1397 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Federal Permitting Improvement Act of 2013 Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] (Introduced 07/30/2013) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 03/11/2014 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-371. (All Actions) Tracker:
26. S.1029 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Regulatory Accountability Act of 2013 Sponsor: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] (Introduced 05/23/2013) Cosponsors: (13) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 03/11/2014 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on the Efficiency and Effectiveness of Federal Programs and the Federal Workforce. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 113-371. (All Actions) Tracker:
27. S.714 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2013 Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] (Introduced 04/11/2013) Cosponsors: (10) Committees: Senate - Judiciary Latest Action: Senate - 04/11/2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (All Actions) Tracker:
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29. S.191 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) Regulatory Responsibility for our Economy Act of 2013 Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS] (Introduced 01/31/2013) Cosponsors: (35) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 01/31/2013 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (All Actions) Tracker:
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31. S.Res.471 — 113th Congress (2013-2014) A resolution honoring former President George H.W. Bush on the occasion of his 90th birthday and Barbara Bush on the occasion of her 89th birthday and extending the best wishes of the Senate to former President Bush and Mrs. Bush. Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME] (Introduced 06/11/2014) Cosponsors: (48) Latest Action: Senate - 06/11/2014 Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Unanimous Consent. (All Actions) Tracker:
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Art students, Broadway pros collaborate on retelling of 'Tempest'
In collaboration with UniNCSA students, New-York based Rhinoleap Productions unveils a modern, experimental interpretation of The Tempest, directed by Patrick Phillip Osteen (UNCSA ’11) on-stage in multiple venues in North Carolina, May 19 - June 12,
Art students, Broadway pros collaborate on retelling of 'Tempest' In collaboration with UniNCSA students, New-York based Rhinoleap Productions unveils a modern, experimental interpretation of The Tempest, directed by Patrick Phillip Osteen (UNCSA ’11) on-stage in multiple venues in North Carolina, May 19 - June 12, Check out this story on citizen-times.com: https://avlne.ws/1sHhVOg
Staff reports Published 2:00 p.m. ET May 30, 2016 | Updated 2:10 p.m. ET May 30, 2016
A modern retelling of "The Tempest" is made in collaboration with UNCSA and Broadway pros.(Photo: Courtesy photo)
In collaboration with University of North Carolina School of Arts students, New-York based Rhinoleap Productions will unveil a modern, experimental interpretation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," directed by alumna Patrick Phillip Osteen, at multiple venues in the state this summer.
Thought to be Shakespeare’s last original work, his classic tragicomedy, "The Tempest" investigates the competition between the forces of nature and the forces of mankind. A usurped rightful lord, banished to an island, conjures the eponymous tempest, whereupon shipwrecked enemies, ominous beasts and human faults crash heavier than the waves that brought them.
In its efforts to reinvigorate a 400-year-old play (and rampant iambic pentameter), Rhinoleap focused on those mediums every person, novice or Shakespeare expert, can feel. Themes, jokes, or plots otherwise described in verse now become sensory interactions. Director Patrick Osteen’s interpretation includes original music, puppetry and a modern script.
Rhinoleap Production’s UNCSA alumni work on and off Broadway as writers, directors, actors, models and comedians. The Tempest features Adam Levinthal, Alex Hoeffler, Lauren Karaman and Chesley Polk. The creative team includes Scott Nicholson, Jonny Price, Aaron Haskel, Andrew Wells Ryder, and Ari Itkin.
"The Tempest" is the first production of many for Rhinoleap, which is dedicated to "turning classics into moderns."
The creative and colorful 90-minute performance will open in Asheville on June 9, running through June 12 at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St. Performances on Thursday, Friday and Saturday will be at 8 p.m., with a matinee performance Sunday at 3 p.m. Tickets range from $27.50 to $34 and can be purchased at rhinoleap.com.
What: Touring production of "The Tempest" from a modern lens
Where: The Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St., downtown Asheville
When: 8 p.m. nightly June 9-11 and 3 p.m. June 12
Tickets: $27.50 to $34 at rhinoleap.com
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Miracle on the Wing
Pay close attention to a closeup's details.
It’s migration time in the Midwest. Shorter days signal a change in the seasons and we’ll see the first migratory songbirds at our feeders any day as they refuel for their long, southerly trips. Experienced adults guide the juveniles from their northern nesting grounds to warmer places. Some will travel a thousand miles before they reach their winter roosts.
But a journey even more amazing is the annual odyssey of the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus). Not only will it travel that far or more, it does so without ever having done it before. In late summer, monarchs east of the Rockies make their way south, most often to Texas. They’ll fly from there to a Mexican mountain range where they’ll roost on oyamel fir trees all winter before they make the journey back to Texas next spring.
The butterflies that migrate to Mexico are the last generation of the summer. The monarchs that roosted in the Mexican woodlands last winter flew back to the southern U.S. last spring where they mated, laid eggs and died. The three or four succeeding generations of monarchs flew northward. They mated, laid eggs and died after two weeks, maybe a month. Each generation moved farther north until the butterflies reached their northern limits in Canada. Now the last generation makes its way south on the signal of shorter days. These monarchs are sturdier than the earlier butterflies – they’ll need to be to make the long trip, survive the winter and then make the return trip to Texas.
The whole thing sounds implausible for an insect. And when you look at it from a butterfly’s point of view, the story is unimaginable. Of the five hundred eggs laid by one female in her short life, only one or two percent survive the elements and predators to mature and lay their own eggs. Add to those odds that the late-summer butterflies have to make the long flight to a small forest in Mexico they’ve never seen before, then back to Texas and it sounds downright impossible.
A monarch butterfly has a four-inch wingspan and weighs about as much as a paperclip. Its life is focused on sipping nectar from flowers, finding a mate and laying eggs. And besides the weather and its natural enemies, it struggles against the loss of habitat in Mexico and North America. So to do our small part to aid its survival, we’ll plant more flowers in our perennial garden beds next year that will provide food for growing caterpillars and nectar for butterflies of all kinds. It’s a simple-but-important thing we all can do for these miracles on the wing.
:: To learn more about Monarch Butterflies, their conservation and research, visit: Monarch Watch.org
MAKING THE PHOTOGRAPH (Techniques for Photographing Insects and Close Ups)
SUBJECT: Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on Canada goldenrod (Solidago altissima).
CONDITIONS: A calm, warm, dewy morning on a restored tallgrass prairie at Goose Lake Prairie State Park, near Morris, Illinois.
EQUIPMENT: Nikon F5, 200mm f/4 microNikkor, tripod, ball head, cable release, Fujichrome Velvia
(This is a photograph from my files in a teaching program I was updating.)
EXPOSURE and SETTINGS: 1/60 sec at f/11, ISO 50; Manual exposure mode, Spot meter, Manual focus.
TECHNIQUE: My goal was to make a pleasing photograph of this monarch resting on a goldenrod flower just before sunrise. I wanted a simple photograph of the butterfly and the flower without distractions in the background. To this end, several elements of a good closeup composition were important: working distance to the subject, control of the background details, getting parallel to the butterfly's wings, and keeping the camera and lens steady. Let's look at these considerations:
The working distance from the camera to the subject was a function of the focal length I chose. I wanted to keep from startling the monarch, so keeping my distance was important. It can't fly until it warms up a bit at first light. Until then, its defense against a threat is to let go and fall into the covering plants below. It could drop into a spider's web or to where a mouse might find it. The 200mm lens allowed me to stay comfortably away from the butterfly and more importantly away from the plant it was resting on. If my tripod leg bumped the plant it was on or another plant that was touching it, it could frighten the butterfly.
The 200mm lens also helped control the background coverage around and behind the butterfly. That meant I could select a position and an aperture that would avoid distracting details and create a soft, out-of-focus background.
I wanted to have sharpness on the butterfly most of all. So I worked carefully to get the film plane (now it's the sensor plane) parallel to its wings. This helped me choose an aperture sufficient for sharpness top to bottom, side to side, but kept things behind it blurred. The process took many small adjustments of the tripod position and lots of patience.
Once I was as parallel to the monarch's wings as I could get, it was time to choose a pleasing aperture. I started at f/8 and used the depth-of-preview function. This let me see exactly how sharp the wings were and how many if any distractions showed up. I stopped down to f/11 and engaged the depth of field preview again. Then I did the same at f/16. It showed me too many background details, so I went back to f/11.
With an adequate aperture selected, I spot metered the out-of-focus background in the upper left and manually dialed in a shutter speed that brought the meter to zero. I called that out-of-focus green a medium tone (or middle tone). And since there were no wildly bright or deep dark tones of consequence in the composition, all the tones fell within the 5-stop contrast range of the film and I knew it would be a correct exposure.
This process is always a compromise between depth of field and distractions. You can see that in this situation, f/11 gave me enough sharpness on the butterfly's wings, but not enough for background details. It wasn't even enough depth to make the flower buds sharp ahead and behind the monarch. Even its closest antenna is out of focus. But the wings were sharp and that was good enough.
If I wasn't parallel to the wings, I wouldn't have gotten the edge-to-edge sharpness that pleased me. So taking my time with the camera position and with the choice of aperture was worth it. But getting sharpness didn't end there. I also needed to make sure the camera and lens were rock steady. A sturdy tripod and a medium-sized ball head gave me a solid platform. Then I engaged the mirror lock function which prevented vibrations from the action of the camera's mirror flipping up and out the way when the shutter clicked. Finally, I used a cable release and that meant my finger would be off the camera's shutter button which could cause additional vibrations and blurring.
The combination of a thoughtful approach, proper equipment choices, careful positioning and good technique all came together for the final photograph. Some days the whole procedure tests my patience and my back. But when the results make me exhale and smile, I know it was worth it.
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Boost for Sharks as key duo re-signs
Wade Graham has re-signed with the Sharks. LUKAS COCH
by Dan Walsh, Fox Sports
CRONULLA has landed a double blow in its ongoing retention battle, re-signing captain-in-waiting Wade Graham and the NRL's most improved man in Matt Prior.
Graham put pen to paper on deal two-year extension worth more than $1.4 million, while Prior did likewise in recommitting until the end of 2020, knocking back interest from a cashed-up Newcastle to remain with the premiers.
The pair's re-signing is a significant coup for the defending champs, shoring up a forward pack that is bracing for the looming retirements of skipper Paul Gallen, as well as veteran back-rowers Luke Lewis and Chris Heighington in the near future.
Gallen has hinted that despite previous suggestions, 2017 may not be his last, and plans to make a call on a swansong season midway through the year.
Having re-signed Graham and Prior, as well as premiership-winning flyers Val Holmes and Sosaia Feki, Cronulla is making steady progress through a lengthy off-contract list. It also secured ex-Panthers hooker James Segeyaro this week until the end of 2018.
The Sharks face a significant battle when it comes to Blues star Jack Bird, however, who has attracted a reported three-year $2.7 million offer from Newcastle, while Parramatta is interested and able to match that figure thanks to the war chest freed up by Kieran Foran's exit last season.
The Sharks will face the Eels at ANZ Stadium tonight, with both sides aiming to bounce back from losses to the Dragons and Titans respectively last week.
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Nikka Whisky Distilling’s heritage is much like their whisky, rich and complex. Founded by Masataka Taketsuru, the son of a sake brewery owner from Takehara, he travelled to Scotland to study chemistry and distilling in 1918 and there he met his future wife, a Scottish woman named Rita. In 1920 he returned to Japan in order to make the first genuine Japanese whisky. By 1934 he had set up Nikka and released the first whisky 6 years later in 1940, Initially working from one distillery in Yoichi. In 1969 Nikka opened a second distillery in Miyagikyo favouring the terrain and resources in the area as it was very similar to Scotland's. Their stills are heated using fine powered coal which is a traditional method rarely used anymore. Using the malts produced at both distilleries their flagship blend Taketsuru Pure Malt is produced.
Key people - Masataka Taketsuru
The son of a sake brewer he always had a desire to bring whisky production to Japan and set out on a worldwide quest to do so, focusing the majority of his time in Scotland learning the traditional techniques of whisky distillation. Studying chemistry at The University of Glasgow and working apprenticeships at James Calder in Bo'ness to learn Coffey grain whisky, Longmorn distillery in Speyside to learn malt whisky production and Hazelburn distillery in Cambeltown to learn malt whisky and blending. During his time in Scotland gained a wealth of knowledge in whisky production techniques across a spectrum of different styles and varieties. When he returned to Japan he brought back with him a Scottish wife whom he had wed in Scotland. He set up Nikka and started making the first true Japanese Whisky.
Key people - Rita Taketsuru
'Rita' was the nickname given to Jessie Roberta Taketsuru neé Cowan, the Scottish wife of Japanese whisky pioneer Masataka Taketsuru. Born into a doctor's family in Kirkintilloch, she met her husband to be when he came to give her younger brother Campbell judo lessons while Masataka was studying at The University of Glasgow. At the time they wed there was great resistance to international marriages so they had a simple ceremony in Glasgow's register office, not long after their wedding they moved to Japan to start distilling whisky. Rita was devoted to her husband and helped along every step of the way until her death at the age of 64 in 1961.
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Skipton will find out next week its role as a host town in this year's Tour de Yorkshire cycling event
Will Skipton stage a start or finish in TdY cycling event?
By Lesley Tate Senior Reporter
The Tour de Yorkshire coming through Skipton. Picture SWPix.com
SKIPTON is due to find out tomorrow whether it will host either a start or a finish of one of the days of this year’s Tour de Yorkshire cycling event.
It will also be revealed by Welcome to Yorkshire at the ceremony at Leeds Civic Hall if Skipton is to host the women’s race, and whether the town will also be included in one of the routes of the other four days of the event.
The stages for the sixth edition of the TdY - which will take place between Thursday, April 30 and Sunday, May 3 - will either start or finish in Barnsley, Beverley, Halifax, Huddersfield, Leeds, Leyburn, Redcar and Skipton.
It will be the first time Skipton has played such a pivotal role in the TdY event, although a finish has taken place before, in Settle in 2016, and three previous races have passed through Skipton, along with the Grand Depart of the Tour de France, and the 2019 UCI Road World Championships.
Back in November, when Skipton was announced as a host town, Paul Shevlin, chief executive of Craven District Council, said he was sure that Skipton would do Craven proud and welcome the world-class event in style.
Tomorrow’s ceremony, which will start at 10.30am, will see the unveiling of the full routes and the TdY Women’s Race, there will also be an announcement regarding the Tour de Yorkshire Ride sportive.
Those attending will include James Mason, the new Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive, who replaces Sir Gary Verity, Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France, and Dame Sarah Storey, the most successful female British Paralympian of all time.
Skipton being put forward as a host town for the event was narrowly agreed by Craven District Council by just two votes with some members concerned that the brand had been damaged following the controversy surrounding the resignation of former Welcome to Yorkshire Sir Gary Verity.
There were also concerns about the possible cost to the council, which could be up to £180,000, if alternative funding is not secured.
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Gecko ‘superheroes’: UC Berkeley researchers discover that geckos can run on water
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About 5 centimeters long, the flat-tailed house gecko may not have previously been considered a superhero, but a team of researchers that recently discovered its ability to run on water is calling it just that.
‘A wide-open person’: UC Berkeley graduate, Nobel Prize-winning chemist Kary Mullis dies at 74
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Podcasts to Listen To: Office Ladies and the best TV podcasts to listen to
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The days of people gathering in front of their televisions at a specific time on a specific day and tuning into a specific station are becoming extinct, but TV shows have never been more popular. Although the way most people consume their favorite shows has changed with the numerous streaming options available, characters, episodes and full series still bring people together. Whether you are wanting to dive deeper into your favorite show or are a just a general fan of TV shows, here are a few podcasts to listen to.
Fans of "The Office" will soon get a behind-the-scenes look at the beloved TV show as co-stars Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey team up to re-watch the series. Each week, Fischer and Kinsey will break down an episode of the show and give fans the stories that only they could tell. The podcast will debut on Oct. 16 and is presented by Earwolf.
Find it: https://www.earwolf.com/show/office-ladies/
Extra Hot Great
Talking TV new and old, and also playing plenty of games along the way, hosts David T. Cole, Tara Ariano and Sarah D. Bunting break down the latest episodes of the most popular shows. Along with guest interviews, episodes feature a roundtable segment called The Canon and the crew appointing winners and losers of the week. Cole, Ariano and Bunting also answer fan questions and attempt to settle debates. Recent episodes include "Stopping The Presses For Press On Masterpiece," "The Survivor Stumptown Sunnyside Shot Clock" and "Polishing The Silver For Downton Abbey: The Movie."
Find it: https://www.extrahotgreat.com/
The Televerse
Hosts Kate Kulzick and Noel Kirkpatrick take a wide-ranging look at the latest TV shows and help listeners dive into what they watched. Along with breaking down the best in TV every week, Kulzick and Kirkpatrick also invite guests about their favorite shows that are no longer on the air. Recent episodes include "Spotlight on Undone," "Spotlight on Unbelievable" and "Spotlight on Mindhunter Season 2."
Find it: http://www.theteleverse.org/
Pilot TV
Hosts Terri White and James Dyer provide a weekly guide to all the essential new shows on television. White and Dyer cover the latest news, reviews, actor interviews and provide some recommendations from the past. Recent episodes include "Motherland, The Terror, and The Walking Dead," "Catherine The Great, Swamp Thing, and Goliath" and "The Politician, World On Fire, and Transparent."
Find it: https://apple.co/2B0jiyf or https://spoti.fi/33lfUdw
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'A proper nice dude' Devastated friends pay tribute to young Scots rugby player found dead at home
Lewis MacDonald, 23, was described as a 'lovely, talented young man'.
Kathleen Speirs
Lewis MacDonald was described as a 'talented' young rugby player (Image: Facebook)
Tributes have been paid to a young rugby player who died suddenly.
Lewis MacDonald, 23, was found dead at his home on Beech Avenue in Nairn , Inverness on Tuesday afternoon.
Police confirmed there were no suspicious circumstances surrounding the death.
Lewis MacDonald was found dead at his home in Nairn, Inverness on Tuesday (Image: Facebook)
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Marine services worker, Lewis played for Highland Rugby Club and was due to appear for the Inverness side this weekend.
The upcoming games have been postponed as a mark of respect.
Devastated loved ones took to social media to pay tribute to the 'friendly face' who had 'so much to give'.
On Facebook Gary MacKenzie wrote: "It will be a quiet place without you.
"Rest easy, little man."
LC Cuth posted: "This is quite unbelievable.
"The guy was a proper nice dude and I'm gutted."
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Leigh-Ann Little added: "He was a lovely, talented young man with so much to give."
Fellow rugby club, Ross Sutherland posted: "The Club would like to extend our deepest condolences to Lewis' family and all at Club Rugbaidh na Gaidhealtachd.
"This is very sad news but rugby people are good people and we all pull together and support each other in times of adversity."
A Police Scotland spokeswoman told the Record: “Police Scotland was made aware of the sudden death of a 23-year-old man at a property on Beech Avenue in Nairn around 3.15pm on Tuesday, December 10.
“There are no suspicious circumstances and a report has been submitted to the Procurator Fiscal.”
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Germany's Lufthansa halts all Tehran flights until Jan. 20 over security concerns
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Germany's flagship carrier Lufthansa said Friday that its group airlines are canceling flights to and from Tehran until Jan. 20, due to the uncertain security situation of the airspace around the Iranian capital.
Lufthansa said the move was a "precautionary measure" and it would decide if and when its flights to Iran would resume when it had more information.
The statement by the airline company says the decision is due to the "unclear security situation for the airspace around Tehran airport" after this week's crash of a Ukrainian jet that killed 176 people.
Other airlines have been making changes to avoid Iranian airspace. Alitalia, which has not had flights to Iran since December 2018, says its flights to New Delhi and the Maldives are using alternate routes to those which usually fly over Iran and Iraq.
U.S. officials said Thursday that the government believed Iran accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner shortly after Iran fired missiles at two U.S. military bases in Iraq, while Iran was on high alert.
All 176 people on board died when the Ukrainian International Airlines plane went down near Tehran Wednesday, shortly after Iran launched missiles at U.S. forces in Iraq over the killing of a top Iranian general.
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Florida Sting Nabs Alleged Bitcoin Money Launderers
AmmarNaeem,
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2/14/2014 | 7:52:26 AM
Re: just my .0002 btc
The hackers targeted Silk Road 2 and swiped their entire Bitcoin wallet clean. Using transaction malleability exploit, the hackers maneuvered the assault causing a damage of worth $2.7 million. Hackers first purchased orders from one another and then claimed for a refund. Using transaction malleability exploit, they bypassed transaction ID verification which enabled them to claim refunds in a loop. Read for more update here
WalrusBaller,
2/12/2014 | 9:57:40 PM
just my .0002 btc
I feel bitcoins' value mostly comes from the ability to send instant micro-payments to anyone in the world. With out any evil bankers getting their greedy, crooked, filthy hands in the middle of a personal transaction. With out bank fees or tiny ones like 0.0001%. Also, the ability to generate as many payment wallets as you want, creates endless possibilities for innovation and freedom.
SmailB826,
This was a sting operation and the Bitcoin part was incidental - these creeps could have wanted to get anything they could spend for their stolen loot. The government CHOSE to offer Bitcoins - to claim that this is really a case against Bitcoin is childish and stupid.
Ariella,
Re: Impact
@Lorna you hit on exactly the problem it has in becoming a mainstream currency. I contacted some of the people who had made Bitcoin news for saying they offered to pay employees in the digital currency for an article. Pyry Lehdonvirta, CEO of SC5, a Finnish software company admitted that he, like most of SC5's employees, "stopped taking salary as bitcoins around March" because of the currency's volatility. He says the intent behind the offer was "to help people spend bitcoins and get into the ecosystem," not to do have them feel like they're "plac[ing] bets in a casino."
Lorna Garey,
Right, but what about the fluctuations? If I sell $500 worth of services and am paid in Bitcoin this week, next week that payment could be worth only $250. Of course, it could also be worth $1,000, but I've never been big on gambling!
@Lorna yes there was a core group of libertarians who were really taken by the idea of a government-free currency. But not everyone involved is extreme. Some really just see it as a practical solution for sending money over IP without the friction of bank fees and processing delays, particularly when two different types of currency are invovled. I can tell you that when I was paid by a UK-based company, it was a bit of a pain working out the bank transfer, and the amounts were always slightly off due to the convesion rate and the bank fee that was assessed on my end.
It's an interesting social phenomenon, that a traditionally distrustful group has that faith. Or, maybe it's not so surprising, in that when you distrust any sort of central authority you'd be attracted to a completely decentralized system.
@Loran ah, if the person/people behind the name kept several thousand bitcoins for themselves, they could have made quite a killing when it came close to $1000. What surprises me is that so many in the bitcoin community have absolute trust in this entity when they cast doubt on other crypto-currencies, like Ripple, simply because there are coroporations behind them. At least those companies are upfront about who they are and their plans to retain some of the currency.
So in other words, it's a reverse pyramid scheme?
@Lorna
Satoshi Nakamoto (though that is not the real name) is the creator of Bitcoin. His Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System laid the groundwork for the system. What is particularly telling is the reference to trust at the end: "We have proposed a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust." Bitcoin, does, nevertheless, seem to indicate a form of trust in numbers, or, more precisely strength in numbers, for that is the translation of "Vires in Numeris," the motto that appears on Casascius. Coins.
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Solar Roadways
Imagine a world where everyone benefits from solar energy. Imagine a clean planet. Imagine safer living. This are the ideas of the couple Scott (engineer) and Julie (psychotherapist) Brusaw when they started the “Solar Roadway Project.”
What is Solar Roadway?
Solar Roadways Incorporated is a startup company based in Sandpoint, Idaho. It was founded by the Brusaw couple, Scott (President and CEO) and Julie in 2006. The company’s vision is to replace asphalt surfaces with structurally-engineered solar panels.
As explained by the Brusaw’s, this technology is a fusion of a transparent driving surface with underlying solar cells, electronics and sensors to act as a solar array with programmable capability.
Solar Roadways awards and honors:
2009 EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards “Best Enabler Award for Green Engineering” category finalist.
2010 EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards “Most Promising Renewable Energy Award” category finalist.
2010 General Electric Ecoimagination Community Award of $50,000.
2013 World Technology Award finalist.
2014 Popular Science. One of 7 “Best of What’s New” Engineering category in the “100 Greatest Innovations of the Year-2014” article.
The Challenge with Solar Roadways
The idea of developing a “smart highway” exciting, unique, and promising. Not to mention the health and environmental benefits should it become fully implemented. However, just like other science projects, Solar Roadways have run into skepticism and hurdles.
Funds and resources top the main problems. A glimmer of hope surfaced in 2009. Brusaw’s efforts paid off when he earned a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the Department of Transportation (DOT). The grant was to fund creating a solar parking lot. It was followed by another SBIR grant from the same department. A whopping $750,000 for Phase II and the creation of a solar parking lot.
SBIR’s grant money led to the creation of a 12-by-36-foot parking lot covered with hexagonal-shaped glass embedded with solar panels beneath. The prototype was a success.
In April 2014, the campaign continued to expand as the company used Indiegogo for crowdfunding. The campaign became on of Indiegogo’s most popular campaigns and raised $2.2 million dollars.
Are Solar Roadways Realistic?
The idea is novel. What a better world we would live in with easily lit roadways, less pollution from creating the roadways, etc. However, engineers, financial experts, and others criticize the project, claiming that it is financially impossible to scale fully Solar Roadways. The cost adds up.
funding to produce all of the Solar Roadway hexagon pieces across the country or world
money to rip up the old roadways
business lost during downtime and detours from construction
wages to implement the new Solar Roadways
It’s not that the Solar Roadways Project is a bust. It is likely that it will just need to evolve over decades and with innovations from additional entrepreneurs. In many respects, the Solar Roadways Project is a success already. Their innovation has already captured the imagination of other solar enthusiasts. Those planted seeds are sure to spawn solar transportation discoveries related to Solar Roadways, one day or another.
“Imagine driving from Seattle to Florida in an EV that is being charged with clean sunshine while driving on the highway. Imagine the jobs that will have
been created, how many families will have been supported while getting to that point.” – Julie Brusaw
For further details, visit www.solarroadways.com.
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Support Groups for Survivors: Commemorating National Minority Cancer Awareness Week
This post was written by Liz Margolies, LCSW, Executive Director of the National LGBT Cancer Network.
In 2013, the National LGBT Cancer Network and LGBT HealthLink surveyed over 300 LGBTQ-identified cancer survivors and found that, overwhelmingly, our communities needed LGBTQ-targeted support. Mainstream, “straight-identified” cancer support groups too often left our people’s cancer experiences shut out of the dialogue. LGBTQ survivors also told us that doctors were not open enough to our needs and sometimes were overtly hostile. Cancer support groups by and for LGBTQ members were the number one request made by survivors who participated in our survey.
So, in 2014, the National LGBT Cancer Network decided to do something about it. With funding and support from the New York State Department of Health, we launched our Support Groups for Survivors, a series of free online support groups for LGBTQ people with cancer, available 24 hours a day. Since that initial pilot group, we have had multiple groups for lesbian and bisexual women, gay and bisexual men, and transgender people, all of whom have experienced a cancer diagnosis and came to us looking for the support of their communities.
Transgender cancer survivor and friend of the National LGBT Cancer Network Jay Kallio
As a moderator of these forums, I have been struck by the voices and the experiences of the LGBTQ elders who come to the group. They arrive scared, anxious, and lonely, but many quickly find “virtual” friends with whom they laugh, cry, and share their feelings openly on a daily basis. Some have previously attended other mainstream support groups and found them lacking. As one survivor wrote, “I’m always the sole lesbian [in my other support groups]. I’m just more comfortable in an LGBT setting.”
Not only did our group members share LGBTQ-specific issues with each other, but everything that mattered to them poured out once they felt they were safe to express themselves. For example, one survivor shared the loss of her beloved step-father with the group and the weeks of pain and grief she has been experiencing as a result. Multiple group members reached out to her in a variety of ways. “I don’t know the ‘right’ words to say to help ease your pain,” responded one member. “Just that I care. I care about how you feel, what you’re going through, and how you’re doing day by day.”
Many of the LGBTQ elders who have joined the groups have commented on how lonely and isolating the experience of having cancer has been for them. Some do not have partners; others do not have living family with whom they are in communication. Still others are isolated as a function of illness, disability, and geographic distance. We like to think that the online nature of our groups allows people to reach out 24/7 to other LGBTQ survivors around the country and not feel so alone, both physically and in the experience of being LGBTQ cancer survivors. One interaction between group members was particularly striking:
“In so many ways cancer has destroyed my life… I haven’t always felt this way. Sometimes I feel I can fight, but lately so much is getting the better of me. It might be best for me to sit out some of this round of postings as I have no real positives to give to anyone at this time. I am barely keeping me going right now… I don’t feel I have a lot to give to you ladies right now. Cancer has taken so much from me.”
Then, this was posted in response:
“I don’t think one needs to be positive to post! For me, this is a journal of sorts, a place to express your feelings, whatever they may be a the moment, and just knowing someone else is out there, whether there’s a reply or not, might just offer a glimmer of hope. We’re all in this in our own ways. We feel what we feel. It’s OK. So please don’t stop for that reason.”
Liz and the National LGBT Cancer Network presenting a groundbreaking partnership for LGBTQ healthcare with New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation
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The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Diverse Elders Coalition.
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By Richard Porter
Not bad, not uncomfortable, just annoying
Chunky interior
Quirky looks
Peppy little 1-litre petrol engine
Panicky blind spot warning
Economy falls short of official figure
Irritating locking beep
Variant: Renegade Limited 1.0 120hp 4x2
Engine: 999cc, three cylinders, turbocharged, eptrol
Power: 118bhp @ 5,750rpm
Torque: 140 lb ft @ 1,750rpm
Transmission: Six-speed manual; front-wheel drive
Acceleration: 0-62mph; 11.2 sec
Fuel: 46.3mpg
co2: 138g/km
Road tax band: £210 for first year; £145 per year thereafter
Dimensions: 4,236mm x 1,805mm x 1,667mm
Release Date: On sale now
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2019 Jeep Renegade review by Richard Porter
Retreat! Ambushed by a Jeep that beeps
YOU MAY recognise this Jeep. It’s been around since 2014, fulfilling a role as the baby of the range. It’s full of cutesy touches, such as a tiny outline of an original Jeep on the fringes of the windscreen, rear lights designed to look like the indent in the side of a jerrycan and the words “To new adventures” engraved above the engine starting button.
You can have the car in bright orange or green, and for 37 quid Jeep will even stick US army-style stars on the sides so you can pretend to be General George Patton as you haul the kids to the out-of-town shopping centre for a Nando’s.
Everything about the Renegade is designed to seem tough and uncompromising, up to and including a name that suggests the car is made for people who pull the pin out with their teeth.
This makes sense when the root of Jeep’s appeal is a sort of all-American outdoorsiness, underpinned by the authenticity we crave in things but don’t need. A diving watch must go down to 1,000 metres. An electric drill must be called the Hammerthrust 5000 and be powerful enough to pierce a dam. A Jeep, like a Land Rover, must appear capable of scampering across the Appalachians without trying.
In this respect the Renegade is a fraud. It’s not even made in North America, but rather in Italy, the first Jeep to be assembled entirely outside the US. Its country of birth makes more sense when you learn that it’s actually a Fiat Punto in walking boots.
Worse yet, many versions aren’t even four-wheel drive, dragging themselves along exclusively by their front wheels to the detriment of their ability to clamber over unpaved landscapes. That’s why the Renegade is plastered in stencilled lettering and little drawings of old-fashioned Jeeps: the evocations of authentic toughness are supposed to cover for actual off-road ability, which, as the designers know full well, most buyers won’t need.
That was true when the Renegade came out five years ago. It’s still true with this lightly updated version. Not a whole lot has changed. There are some new bumpers, a slight tweak to its frowny headlights and a few tickles to the interior, which remains as chunky and wholesome as you’d expect, if unlikely to give an Audi quality-control engineer a pang of envy.
The main thing to know about this Renegade is that it is available with a new petrol engine with a capacity of just 999cc across three cylinders, plumped up with a turbo. It’s a good little engine, pulling vigorously with a slight but well-suppressed growl.
None among this new generation of shrunken petrol engines seems capable of delivering the on-paper promise of miraculous economy, which may be why the car industry is already going off them, but this one affords a more pleasant driving experience than a diesel and doesn’t generate a mist of particulates that has to be trapped by a filter.
You’d never mistake the Renegade for a sports car, but because the engine is strong and the gearshift is smooth, it doesn’t feel leaden. On the road it feels how it looks, which is pleasantly chunky.
You may think that all sounds quite nice. You may even want one. But before you head to your nearest Jeep shop, a word of caution: this is also, sadly, an annoying car. Not bad; not uncomfortable; just annoying.
The annoyance starts with, of all things, the left-hand steering-column stalk, which has a weak spring in the mechanism, so that when you indicate you often inadvertently flash the headlights, to the puzzlement of other drivers.
If you’re drawn to the Renegade because you like its cute little face, I would urge you to think carefully about how much you want a car that goes “Squeee!” every time you get into it.
Then there’s the blind spot warning system, which seems to get spooked by things it should ignore, flashing up a panicky graphic between the dials as if it believes you’re about to drift into a parked car or a small wall.
On top of that, the dashboard sometimes issues a single “bing” for no readily explicable reason. It’s not a noise of alarm; it’s more the general-information kind that says “the lift has arrived at your floor”, rather than “the enemy torpedo is arriving at your submarine”.
These quirks are just sideshows, however, next to the No 1 way in which this otherwise perfectly nice little Jeep gently but persistently tries to nudge you into a state of twitchy-eyed irritation until one day you have to sell it or burn it. That honour is taken by the central-locking alert. Like any car with keyless entry, the Renegade senses the fob about your person as you walk up to it, so when you put your hand on the door handle, it unlocks.
What Jeep has thrown into this process is a sound. A long, shrill, needless sound that — here’s the killer blow — you can’t turn off. If you approach the passenger side first and open the door to chuck something on the seat, it makes the noise, and then it does it again when you open the driver’s door, even though the car is already unlocked. “Squeee! … Squeee!”
I discovered this when leaving a friend’s house at 11.30pm, and now his neighbours hate me. So do mine, because I got home at midnight, and the Jeep makes an equally piercing noise when you lock it.
What in the name of Jennifer were the designers thinking? Who wants their car to make a loud noise when it locks and unlocks, apart from people in TV shows? It’s profoundly annoying, not to say slightly embarrassing, and it spoils the whole car.
If you’re still drawn to the Renegade because you like its cute little face and its chunky dashboard buttons, I would urge you to think carefully about how much you want a car that goes “Squeee!” every time you get into it. Maybe that doesn’t bother you. Maybe you’re already imagining yourself in a bright-yellow one with stars on the doors. Well, frankly, it doesn’t matter what colour you get. Everyone in your town will know you’ve got one, because every time you get in or out, they’ll be able to hear you.
Richard Porter is script editor of The Grand Tour. This article first appeared in The Sunday Times.
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Extended Test: 2019 Honda CR-V Hybrid
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Salt and Exercise: Why salt is an essential part of your workout
Salt has become the centre of a hot debate over the past few years. We all know that too much of the stuff is bad for us, something we’ll look into in a lot more detail soon, and the dangers of exceeding our recommended daily salt intake are becoming increasingly well-known, many of us don’t realise that having too little salt in our bodies can be dangerous.
To help you make an informed decision on salt and exercise, we asked our resident nutrition expert and personal trainer for her thoughts, and the role it needs to play in your workout regime. But let’s dive straight in with some rock hard facts about salt…
Why is salt bad for you?
When we consume too much salt, the extra water that is stored inside our body and cells causes our blood pressure to rise. The more salt you eat, the higher your blood pressure becomes. High blood pressure levels can place a huge strain on your heart; it can also affect your arteries, kidneys, and your brain. If high blood pressure levels are maintained for too long, it can lead to strokes, heart attacks, kidney disease, and even dementia.
But, why is salt good for you?
Sodium is incredibly important to the functionality of our bodies; and salt is a key source of sodium. Salt helps to regulate the concentration of our bodily fluids, which constantly hang in a delicate balance. It helps our cells to absorb all the vital nutrients they need, and it is also required for healthy muscle and nerve activity. But you should be very careful to monitor your salt intake in order to avoid excess.
The amount of salt you should take in on a daily basis varies depending on your age. Below are the recommended guidelines from the NHS:
Adults (and children 11 years and over) should consume no more than 6g of salt a day. This equates to approximately one teaspoon and contains roughly 2.4g of sodium
Children aged seven to 10 years should eat no more than 5g or less salt a day
Children aged four to six should consume 3g or less salt a day
Those aged one to three should consume 2g or less salt a day
Babies less than one year old should have less than 1g of salt a day. Babies that are breastfed will get the correct amounts required, and formula milk contains similar levels
Salt and exercise: How are the two related?
Any regular gym-goer will recognise the salty taste of sweat after a good hard workout. We know that we lose salt during our workout, but it’s much more than just a clever way for our bodies to cool down.DW’s resident health and nutritional expert, Carly Tierney, explains how low levels of salt in your body can affect your workout:
“Salt plays a vital role in our body. It can help regulate muscle contraction, nerve function and blood volume. It also regulates fluid levels in your body.
“Low sodium levels can cause dehydration, muscles cramps or even organ failure.
“If an athlete is sweating a lot, and losing a great deal of sodium, a combination of salty foods or snacks and electrolyte-rich drinks may be preferable for keeping sodium levels up.”
If maintaining high levels of hydration throughout your workout, and indeed after you have left the gym, wasn’t enough, Carly’s comments highlight the importance of keeping your internal salt levels regulated too.
Salt intake and exercise
Although there is a recommended level of sodium that we should be consuming on a daily basis, Carly emphasises that it can be dangerous to generalise how much salt people need to consume. This is particularly true for athletes who may need to consume more in order to replenish salt that is lost during exercise.
Everyone is different and, depending on their body shape and size, some people will require more salt than others. That being said, as a general rule, it is important to keep your levels topped up after a rigorous workout.
“The average gym-goer can lose around one litre of sweat per hour of exercise. This can increase to two litres if you have been training intensely,” Carly continued.
“Many runners, for example, lose a lot of salt when they train and compete. This understandably leads to salt cravings post-workout. My advice would be to indulge the craving and consume a salt snack and sports drink to replenish the loss. Around 200mg of sodium is ideal.”
Salt and cramps when exercising: Is sodium intake the key?
Eddy Diget is a master trainer and a nutritional expert. He works with a host of high-performance athletes, all of whom need to maintain a strictly balanced diet, with the right amount of all nutrients. If you like your science to be backed up by real-life case studies, then we have the perfect one for you right here:
“I have been training an ‘Ultra Tri’ athlete who is required to run for over 100 miles,” Eddy told us. “He suffered with ‘mid-workout cramps’, so I suggested that about four hours prior to his workout he drank about 2 - 3 ml of water per pound of body weight. He was 68kg, so he drank about 300/450 ml of water. 15 minutes after every workout he drank a glass of water with a pinch of salt mixed into the drink - he has never suffered with cramps or headaches since.”
If that wasn’t enough, the NHS advises that low levels of water in the body can result in falling salt resources, which can lead to, you guessed it, muscle cramps.
How to maintain a sensible low sodium diet
While we’ve established that salt is an imperative part of our diet, and that salt and exercise are more intrinsically linked that we thought, we can’t escape the fact that we really do need to limit our intake.
It’s estimated that up to 75% of our daily recommended salt consumption comes from everyday foods, so you’re probably getting your fix without even realising it. And that’s before many of us add salt onto our food at the dinner table, often just out of habit. Of course, because salt is lurking in places where we least expect to find it, it’s easy for us to consume too much.
Five surprising high-sodium foods
Bread - It was suggested by a study in 2011 that some loaves of bread may contain as much salt in each slice as a packet of crisps.
Cereal - You’d expect some cereal brands to have high sugar content, but it’s been shown that there are also incredibly high levels of salt in many of the most popular varieties.
Tinned soup - Considered by many to be a healthy lunch option, but maybe not. It’s been suggested by studies that some tinned soups can contain the same (or more) salt than two slices of takeaway pizza.
Cheddar cheese - Already high in saturated fats, but 95% of cheese products were found to contain more salt per serving than a packet of ready salted crisps.
Stock cubes - Who’d have guessed that this harmless little cube used to add flavour would be on this list, but some contain as much as 50% salt.
Top tips on how to reduce salt intake
Our nutrition expert, Carly, has an abundance of tips to help curb your salt intake…
Be sparing with sauces, especially soy sauce, as they are usually very high in salt
Cut down on salty snacks such as crisps - go for low-salt snacks such as dried fruit, sticks of vegetables and unsalted nuts
Try to eat less bacon, cheese, pickles, smoked fish and ready-made meals, as these contain high sodium levels
Add less salt when cooking - use herbs and spices to add flavour when cooking
Make your own stock, or opt for lower salt stock cubes
Get out of the habit of adding extra salt at the table - remember to taste your food first as often you’ll find it doesn’t need more!
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For any teenager high school can be a disquieting time, and adding the stress of having Tourette syndrome adds a whole new element. However, Jane Hamilton, a high school cheerleader in Minnesota with a mild form of Tourette’s, is not letting it get in her way anymore.
“I think one thing about Tourette’s people don’t understand [is] it’s not just people cussing — that’s not it at all,” Hamilton told InsideEdition.com. “My Tourette’s is pretty mild. The thing is it can vary, I mean, before I’ve had somewhat extreme Tourette’s. Now I don’t, really.”
Just this past March Jane was having difficulties in school. She had a tic in which she made loud noises and a lot of her fellow classmates didn’t understand why she did this.
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Jane is not nervous about this coming school year because her tic is much milder now and her classmates are more informed about her condition. Jane also made the Century High School cheerleading team which has helped her build confidence because in the past she has felt that she was always in the background. At first, she feared being judged and almost quit the team but ultimately decided against it. Jane realized she was the face of Tourette’s at her school and everyone was cheering for her success and she didn’t want to let her supporters down. She’s also hoping that being on the team will help raise awareness about Tourette’s.
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While occurrence coverage is based on when the act occurred, claims-made coverage is based on when the act is reported (when the claim is actually made).
Claims-made policies provide coverage for claims, which are reported to the insurer while the policy is in force. The policy covers professional services rendered on or after either (1) the policy inception date or (2) an earlier retroactive date. The retroactive date is a date mutually agreed upon by the company and the insured to begin the coverage period. Thus, a claims-made policy may provide coverage for professional service rendered from a retroactive date through cancellation or expiration of the current policy, so long as the claim is reported to the insurer during a policy period.
Claims-made coverage is less expensive than occurrence during the first few years. The premium then increases to compensate for the increased risk of receiving claims from previous years. Premium increases, often called “steps”, reflect the insured’s increased exposure to this liability. Steps usually cease after five years have transpired from the retroactive date.
When a claims-made policy is cancelled by the insured or non-renewed by the carrier, an Extended Reporting Endorsement (commonly called “tail coverage”) may be required. There is an additional cost associated with this endorsement; however, it will provide protection for claims reported after the claims-made policy’s termination date.
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For persons who have had Claims-made policies, The Extended Reporting Endorsement (tail coverage) provides protection for claims filed in the future. By contrast, some insurers offer tail coverage only for claims made during a short period of time after the termination of the policy, after which the insurer has no responsibility to provide tail coverage.
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More effort, glitz needed to push people out of their homes and into amusement parks
Theme parks get more interactive More effort, glitz needed to push people out of their homes and into amusement parks Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/1xJbWE4
Associated Press Published 12:06 a.m. ET Nov. 27, 2014
JACKSON, UNITED STATES: Riders raise their arms as they travel the "Kingda Ka" roller coaster 19 May, 2005, at Six Flags amusement park in Jackson, New Jersey. The roller coaster is billed as the tallest at 456 feet (139 meters) and fastest, 128 mph (205 kph) on the Earth. AFP PHOTO/Stan HONDA (Photo credit should read STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images)(Photo: STAN HONDA / AFP/Getty Images)
Orlando, Fla. – — Your local fun zone, amusement center and theme park is facing an existential challenge these days.
They need to lure you, the American guest, off your sofa with your high resolution, interactive video games and into their world of fun — real life fun.
A decade or two ago, folks went to theme parks big and small to experience the latest in entertainment and technology. Now, attractions need to come up with something better than the amazing quality of entertainment you can get on your computer or TV.
“There’s clutter and noise everywhere nowadays from all of these different channels about things you can do with your time. You have to have an exciting product and you’ve got to be able to do things as a family together,” said Jim Pattison Jr., president of Ripley Entertainment.
Pattison’s company owns the Guinness World Records Attractions, Louis Tussaud’s Wax Museums and the cataloge raisonne of bizarre, the Ripley’s Believe it or Not! Museums.
Last week, he and about 27,000 other theme park professionals descended on the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida, to seek out the newest in cool, fun stuff that will lure residents out of their homes.
Walking around the nine miles of show floor aisles at the annual International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions Expo is like riding a mechanical bull through a slot machine: wild and noisy and tiring. There’s everything from Hawaiian-themed hot dogs to working carnival rides to the latest in roller-coaster track technology. One company even offers a turnkey theme park solution — they can plan, outfit and open an entire theme park. They’ve done nearly a dozen in China.
But the real buzzword at the show is “interactivity.” It seems that every vendor and park owner is hoping to meet the challenge of luring you away from your Xbox by merging traditional thrill rides with those very video games.
“Immersion” is another buzzword used constantly by park owners and ride developers. It’s not enough to just passively ride an attraction. Thrill seekers want to go fast and watch a 3-D movie and shoot zombies at the same time.
There’s “Justice League: Battle For Metropolis,” which will feature the DC Comic all-star team at Six Flags St. Louis and Six Flags Over Texas. The ride will involve laser blasters, animatronics and a 3-D fog screen.
There’s “Voyage to the Iron Reef,” where riders will climb into “submarine-inspired vehicles” and blast away at scavenging creatures, fish and other 3-D creatures as they attempt to save Knott’s Berry Farm in California from a watery doom. This attraction might be the first-ever to involve a steampunk puffer fish.
Holovis, a U.K.-based company, was selling a customizable “interactive dark ride” (an indoor ride where cars or vehicles travel through illuminated scenes, often with special effects, music and animation), where riders in a roller coaster car blasted away at pirates in a tropical setting.
“It’s always challenging for us to find new and better and thrilling,” said Stuart Hetherington, the CEO of Holovis. “A 10-year-old doesn’t want to experience the same quality from an immersion experience than from his Xbox in his bedroom.”
Theme parks are trying to find ways to incorporate apps and social media into the games and rides so people will continue the immersive experience even after they’ve left the park. Some rides and theme park experiences allow guests to play game versions of the rides on their phones or compare their in-game scores to other guests via an app.
“Everybody wants to be interactive today. It’s not just a matter of going for the experience, now you have to have a digital platform,” Pattinson said.
No one knows this better than Denise Chapman Weston, a psychologist who incorporated video games, a smartphone app, lights and music into a water slide. Called Slide Boarding, it’s coming to select Wet ‘n’ Wild parks. Riders can control the music and lights as they whiz down an enclosed, watery chute, then compare and compete for scores with others.
“This,” said Chapman Weston, pointing to her phone, “is not a way to have fun. We need to be with other people. We love to be with other people. We love to be immersed in something.”
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Preview of Boys Arcadia Basketball
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Arcadia’s coaches assess their team’s progression as William Scarborough practices his jump shot in the background. Photo by Matthew Yoder.
By Matthew Yoder
If the Arcadia boys basketball team plays to its strengths of speed and defense, the 2019-20 season should be a successful campaign, frustrating to their opponents on the court, and entertaining for their fans in the gym.
Assistant coach Kyle Williams sums up the strategy in blunt terms. “We’re trying to create chaos.”
This team is built on speed. There is no denying that. What players lack in height, they more than make up for in pure athleticism. The challenge for third year coach Rodney Armstrong is execution. He is attempting to end the skid of consecutive losing seasons. Zone defenses have stymied this team in the past and Armstrong wants his team to control the tempo throughout the game.
“We’re trying to keep the pace up, we have to execute versus the zone, and we play a lot better when we are fast,” said Armstrong.
Arcadia enters the season with a deep squad, returning four starters and eight seniors. That, in itself, should make them a favorite to compete for a championship, according to Williams.
“We should be the deepest and definitely one of the most experienced teams, when you have a senior class you are supposed to dominate,” Williams said.
Armstrong believes their progress to get to that point will depend on how they work together on the court. He takes his role as facilitator very seriously. He looks at in terms as a family, urging his players to stick together through thick and thin.
“Our job, as coaches, is to bring unity, these kids have to trust each other to get along and we’ve got to get along to win a championship,” said Armstrong.
To this point Armstrong is encouraged by his squad’s focus and teambuilding, stating that practices have been “very competitive.” With a strong group of underclassmen surging, Armstrong believes the push has motivated some seniors.
“Playing time is nothing that anyone can rely on,” Armstrong said.
The core of the team should still be the play from the senior guards, notably Lethon Williams, Kamron Downing, and William Scarborough. They will be instrumental with setting a frenetic tempo, then it breaks down to who can make shots. Scarborough and Kylen Wharton are the teams best pure shooters, Armstrong believes, and he trusts Williams to have the court presence to find the open man. Williams is not only skilled at including his teammates, but he can take over the game in a number of ways.
“Lethon is our ironman, we can utilize him in mismatches,” said Armstrong.
Look for him to break down defenders at the point, or take the ball coast to coast in transition.
“Lethon is capable of getting a rebound and running by three defenders,” Armstrong said.
Armstrong’s praise for Williams’ leadership was profound.
“He’s a special player, he knows what it takes to win,” said Armstrong.
Excitement for this season is high among coaches and players. Scrimmages have been successful and productive, as the team works through situational basketball right now. The season opens this week, and early matchups away against Northampton and Nandua will test this team’s ability to compete for a championship. Success will all boil to down to execution. Can Arcadia assert their will with high tempo play, or will they be challenged into slower, half-court situations?
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DIVERSIFICATION DOUBLES HOMES AND TURNOVER FOR THE EDENSTONE GROUP
INDEPENDENT homebuilder the Edenstone Group predicts an annual turnover of £80 million by 2020-2021.
The Magor-based business, ranked at number seven in the Fast Growth 50 guide, has achieved record results. Turnover and the number of private sale completions both doubled in the last year.
Operating across South Wales and the South West of England, the company credits diversification for its continued success. During the year, the Group launched its Bluebell Homes brand and the new Ashgrove Partnerships business, which works with registered social landlords and local authorities to deliver affordable housing.
Martin Taylor, managing director of the Edenstone Group, said:
“The year ended April 30, 2019 was hugely successful for the Group, with revenues more than double the previous year. The number of private sale completions also doubled; we achieved sell-out success at several locations, launched new sites and sold our first Zero Carbon home.
“Thanks to the dedication of the multi-disciplined team and a flexible approach, we are continuing to grow at a pace. We are confident that we will achieve an annual turnover of £80 million by 2020-2021 – that’s an increase of £30 million from previous projections.”
As the company continues to target higher-demand, lower risk sectors of the housing market, the average size of its developments will continue to increase and the average selling price will reduce.
Turnover more than doubled to £39.4m (2018: £18.3m)
Completions of private homes up by 100% to 78 homes (2018: 39 homes)
25 new jobs created
Sharing success via the Edenstone Foundation
Ashgrove Partnerships business launched
Bluebell Homes brand launched
First zero carbon home sold
To underpin its growth, Edenstone has secured a number of larger multi-year projects, including Parc Ceirw Garden Village in North Swansea and St Mary’s Garden Village in Ross-on-Wye, featuring circa 300 homes each.
“Our aim is to continue with our growth plan and to help address the housing shortage by offering both affordable and private sale homes to meet consumer demand,” Martin explained.
“Between Edenstone Homes, Bluebell Homes and Ashgrove Partnerships, we are building homes to cater for a variety of different lifestyles and budgets, increasing the options available to all market segments.”
Martin added:
“Our point of difference is our focus on the design of new homes and developments, plus the creation of thriving communities where people will enjoy living now and in the future.
“Our mixed-tenure strategy delivers sector-leading growth rates while maintaining a position of financial strength. The diversification of our market offering underpins the resilience of our business model through the economic cycle.”
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Ryan Day, Ohio State's To-Do List Heading Into Pivotal Recruiting Weekend With the Dead Period Looming
By Andrew Ellis on June 18, 2019 at 2:15 pm @teddyheisman
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The most important recruiting weekend of the year is nearly upon us.
The dead period starts next week, but Ryan Day and the Buckeyes have plenty going on before it hits. This weekend will see numerous top targets – including several of the 2020 commitments – head to Columbus for Ohio State's biggest recruiting event of the calendar year.
Running back recruiting has been the topic du jour, but folks are also a bit on edge about the lack of defensive pledges. That includes some former Buckeyes wondering why things haven't yet taken off for Jeff Hafley and Co. This weekend is going to have a heavy defensive feel to it and several of Ohio State's top remaining targets could be in a position to let their intentions be known.
We'll have an up-to-date visitor guide in the coming days, but the key prospects coming to town are many of the names we've had circled for several months now. The list will continue to evolve between now and Friday, but at the moment we've got a bit of a checklist for Ryan Day and the Ohio State staff heading into the weekend festivities.
Locking Down the Cali Stars
Ohio State's top corner target – and really one of the top overall targets in the entire class – is making the long journey from California to Columbus this weekend. The Buckeyes didn't sign a corner this past cycle and it's one of the more important position groups this time around. Clark Phillips III has been a priority target for several months now with Day and Jeff Hafley leading the charge.
Checking in as the nation's No. 4 cornerback, Phillips is considering a number of West Coast schools in addition to Ohio State and Notre Dame. The Buckeyes have been the team to beat for a while now and earlier today news broke that Phillips will be announcing his commitment on Friday at 3 p.m. Needless to say, this is going to be a big one for Ohio State.
Lejond Cavazos is already in the mix and he's a guy who could play corner or safety. A Phillips/Cavazos duo would be a heck of a start for Jeff Hafley and the Ohio State secondary. They could look to take three corners by the time all is said and done.
Another California four-star will also be in town, and St. John Bosco's Kourt Williams is also on commitment watch. The 6-foot-1, 215-pounder is a bit of hybrid safety/linebacker who's being recruited to play the bullet position. Williams has been to Penn State, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma, and now the Buckeyes will get his final official visit.
Ohio State has had some recent success at St. John Bosco. Urban Meyer landed Wyatt Davis a few years back and had Jaiden Woodbey in the fold for the majority of the 2018 process before he ultimately flipped to a powerhouse Florida State team that went 5-7 during his freshman season.
Williams has really made a name for himself in this year's camp circuit. At The Opening regional event in Long Beach, he recorded a 4.60 in the forty, 4.09 shuttle, and a 39” vertical jump while taking home the event's top combine rating. He's looking to make a decision sometime this summer.
Shoring up the Safeties
One can make the argument that all three of Ohio State's top safety targets will be in town this weekend. Tucson, Arizona's Lathan Ransom and West Bloomfield, Michigan's Makari Paige are four-star prospects at the position. Muskegon athlete Cameron Martinez could end up at a number of different spots and safety is absolutely one of them.
Martinez seems like the best bet to make a decision, but he doesn't have an exact timetable in place. Ransom is also considering LSU, Notre Dame, and Texas with Ohio State getting his final official. Bijan Robinson is a five-star teammate of Ransom's and the top tailback target for both the Longhorns and Buckeyes. The recruitment is in no way a package deal, but nabbing Ransom certainly wouldn't hurt.
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Paige's recruitment seems to be coming down to the usual Big Ten powers, but perhaps yesterday's Oklahoma offer could complicate things a bit? He took an official to Penn State last week and now it's Ohio State's turn to impress. The Buckeyes would love to grab a pair of safeties but could potentially take all three if Martinez were to come in as an athlete.
Securing the State
Plenty of local prospects will also be in town this weekend, including top targets for both the 2020 and 2021 classes. Cincinnati's Darrion Henry will be back and he could make a decision anytime in the coming weeks. After flirting with a number of SEC schools, there appears to be very little doubt surrounding Henry's ultimate destination.
The 2021 crop is going to be even more impressive with Ben Christman, Lorenzo Styles, and A.J. Kirk all on campus. Christman was just in South Bend last week and Ohio State has had its struggles when going head to head with the Irish for offensive linemen. He's the country's No. 3 tackle for the 2021 class and an early commitment would be a very big deal for Ryan Day and Greg Studrawa.
Just about everyone has Kirk penciled into the class now that Ohio State has extended an offer. The Dublin Coffman defender has the look of someone who can play the bullet spot down the road. I'm not sure if a decision is coming this soon, but again there's not a whole lot of doubt with this one. Styles may be in a bit of a tough spot given the wide receiver talent the Buckeyes have already and the guys at the top of the board for 2021. The legacy is likely to end up at Ohio State or Notre Dame.
Keep Chipping Away
Some interesting news dropped Monday night when Rivals.com's Marc Givler reported that the nation's top tailback will be in town for a visit. Houston's Zachary Evans has the Buckeyes among his favorites, but most expect him to end up somewhere in the SEC. Still, getting the five-star on campus for an unofficial is a big first step for Tony Alford as he continues to chase Bijan Robinson and Kendall Milton.
Gee Scott seems to be the talk of Twitter lately with highlight play after highlight play. The four-star wideout will be in Columbus this weekend and four-star teammate Sam Adams II is expected to be in tow. Adams it the country's No. 16 tailback and Ohio State is one of his top options. Most have the 6-foot-2, 200-pounder pegged to the Huskies, but anything can happen when you get them on campus.
Deerfield Beach all-purpose back Jaylan Knighton is nearing a decision and he's stated it could come anytime within the next week. He's fresh off a trip to Tallahassee and that's where most seem to have him landing. Can Ohio State knock this one out of the park and help to remedy the problematic 2020 state of running back recruiting?
He's not a bell cow like Milton or Robinson but would absolutely be a nice all-purpose kind of weapon. This is the kind of recruitment that could have potentially been an Urban Meyer special. Perhaps Ryan Day can say the same?
This one is somewhat obvious, but I imagine it can prove quite difficult for the staff. Every year there are one or two events that draw in an abnormally high number of visitors. Friday's "Buckeye Barbecue Bash" looks to be one of the weekend's big draws, but things are going to be running just about non-stop from Friday through Sunday.
There are only so many coaches, assistants, and support staff members, so I can only imagine the difficulty when hosting the sheer number of prospects that are expected in Columbus this weekend. Obviously Ohio State is as good as anyone when it comes to hosting these things – as we've seen time and time again with Friday Night Lights – but the staff will need to make sure all of the top targets and families are feeling the love and comfort while in town.
I think back to yesteryear when guys like Raekwon McMillan and Curtis Samuel were pretty much attached to Urban Meyer and Mark Pantoni's hips the entire time while other visitors/campers were also doing their things. Clearly Ohio State will have a plan in place, but the magnitude of such a weekend has to be a lot to handle; especially with families traveling in from across the country.
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KATE BUSH REISSUED, REMASTERED AND RECONSIDERED, PART TWO (2018): The artist in ascendancy
Graham Reid | Nov 29, 2018 | 8 min read
Eat the Music (from The Red Shoes)
When Kate Bush released her fifth album Hounds of Love in '85 it came three years after her demanding but quite extraordinary The Dreaming. Even despite that hiatus – and an earlier gap of two years between Never For Ever and The Dreaming – she was still only 26.
She may seem to disappear from attention from time to time, but she was certainly prolific.
And always interesting: her lyrics dealt with dreams, myths, cruel aspects of reality, literature and so much more, and her music ran from funk-rock to piano ballads, orchestrated work and touches of world music.
Hers had been quite a journey which began when she was picked by EMI at age 16 and mentored towards her The Kick Inside debut in '78 when she was 19.
It is interesting to look at her early life to see how she could so rapidly assimilate so much. She attended a Catholic school and later acknowledged that although she didn't consider herself a Catholic the religious imagery affected her. She taught herself piano (her English father, a doctor, played and older brother Paddy was an instrument maker) and was surrounded by arts and creativity: her other brother John was a poet and both brothers played in the local folk scene around East Wickham in Kent.
With the EMI advance she took dance and movement lessons with Lindsay Kemp and her band played gigs around South London. She wrote scores of songs in this time.
So by the time Bush was ready to record her debut she has accrued a wealth of imagery, musical ideas and just enough live experience to be a confident performer.
That she was attractive and articulate certainly helped and it is noticeable that despite her writing many songs about feminine sensuality and sexuality she has most often been interviewed and reviewed by older males (this writer included), frequently for the UK “dad rock” magazines like Q and Mojo.
That said, she wasn't interviewed for Karen O'Brien's '95 book Hymn to Her; Women Musicians Talk or appeared in Australia Rolling Stone's '97 special issue Women in Rock by which time she had seven studio albums (five of them top 20 in Australia), two live albums and three compilations released.
As with Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Bjork and others, Bush is of rock culture yet not really part of it. She would be reviewed alongside albums by Oasis, Nirvana and Rihanna but these were not her musical peers.
She had struck out on an individual path and although by The Dreaming – especially with the demanding Dreaming – she had shed much of the audience attracted by that memorable debut single Wuthering Heights.
By '85 she seemed to be more respected and admired than actually listened to.
But the Hounds of Love album would change that.
Kate Bush is currently getting a major reissue with all her studio albums remastered by herself with James Guthrie (Pink Floyd’s producer and engineer since 1978). And they come as four box sets of vinyl – with albums of 12'' mixes and other material, or as two box sets of CDs.
It's a lot of Kate Bush, but then again hers was a career well worth following.
In the first part of this overview we looked at her first four albums, let's now consider the next three in the second vinyl box.
(All seven of these albums are in the first of two CD box sets.)
If The Dreaming was the album for determined and loyal followers, Hounds of Love opened the door for more mainstream acceptance. The Dreaming didn't perform to expectation (it didn't sell after an initial rush) but Hounds of Love was the gift that just kept on giving (for EMI and Bush).
It went to number one in Britain, was nominated for a number of Brit Awards (among them best album, best producer for Bush, best female artist) and for the first time she cracked the US top 40 rising to number 30.
The driving single Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) cracked radio.
For Bush this must have come as great vindication because she produced the album herself in the expensive home studio she'd had built.
Since its release it has grown in stature. In June 2000 when Q picked their 100 Greatest British Albums Ever it came in at number 20, the only album by a woman solo artist in their top 60 (the next was Dusty Springfield's '65 album Everything's Coming Up Dusty).
It was in its own way as ambitious as The Dreaming but was more crafted and refined (and less angry) as she took time out “living a normal life” and explored themes of love, death and English Romanticism in songs which sounded much less forced.
The first side was a series of discrete songs starting with the gently hypnotic and rhythm-driven Running Up That Hill and the title track about trepidation in love. Her voice had mostly toned down much of the shrillness which had coloured her previous albums and her pop sensibilities came more to the fore, but without compromise.
The natural world was also a key component and infected the mood of songs like The Big Sky, Hello Earth and The Morning Fog.
“People commented on the how the album seems very elemental,” she said later. “And I can't help but put quite a lot of that down to the fact that I moved out into the country. The visual stimulus coming in was that of fields and trees, and seeing the elements doing their stuff”.
The second side of the album was her song-cycle of seven songs billed separately as The Ninth Wave which explored Arthurian myths, the sleep of death
“It's a bit like my first novelette,” she said. “It was really hard work but I thought it was the beginning of something really interesting, it's just the idea of taking a piece of music on a journey, which was what opera and classical music used to do all the time.”
And that locates the album somewhere between pop (the first side) and art music (the second).
With a large cast – a couple of dozen players, a string quartet and choir – Hounds of Love remains a remarkable work although again no one would say Bush made things easy with that song-cycle which has spoken word interpolations. American Rolling Stone hated it.
It may be pretentious at times, veer towards prog more than art music in places (Waking the Witch) and frankly a jig is a jig is a jig (Jig of Life is a drag unless you are an Eirophile) but it remains an album for deep immersion and, despite its difficulties, it was embraced by British, Commonwealth and European audiences.
The Sensual World (1989)
After another lengthy period away from the spotlight – she always shunned media attention and had only toured once by this point – Bush returned with an album under the title which seemed to apply to much of her work.
Although she had always commanded the attention of serious musicians this one boasted a spectacular supporting cast which notably included composers Michael Kamen and Michael Nyman (orchestral arrangements), Nigel Kennedy, arranger Bill Whelan, the Balanescu Quartet, jazz bassist Eberhard Weber (who had also been on Hounds of Love), Irish musicians, bassist Mick Karn (of Japan), the Trio Bulgarka, David Gilmour . . .
If that sounds like a car crash of egos and celebrities it is among Bush's many gifts that she has such a clear and focused idea of production. The parts interlock and this time the Celtic elements are more refined into the whole.
The title track is an immediate winner for its sinuous melody, Bush's whispery vocals which draw you into the narrative (based on Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses encountering the vibrant reality of life beyond the pages) and the follow-up Love and Anger is as close to a power ballad as she ever came, propelled by Stuart Elliott's drumming and with a guitar wig-out by Gilmour. Reaching Out tracks into similar soundtrack territory with dramatic strings and a lyric which asserts “reaching out for the star that explodes”).
Her father does the spoken word part of the airy Fog (where sings “I'm all grown up now”).
The Trio Bulgarka's presence nods towards the world music influences here which her friend Pater Gabriel had been exploring and assimilating for much of the decade (she had sung with him on the British hit Don't Give Up a few years previous)
Where previous albums painted on a large canvas, The Sensual World comes off as a collection of coherent and integrated individual songs wound around her familiar themes of Romantic love, lust and cosmic spirituality. And Deeper Understanding (with a disconcerting sound of phone ringing) is about the emotional isolation of people attached to technology.
The clunking funk of Heads We're Dancing remains baffling however (Hitler or some doppelgänger as a dance partner? That sounds more Mel Brooks).
It was a thematically patchy album but well received at the time but there was again a long silence (filled by a massive eight CD compilation) before her next album, which was a leap up once more.
Lead off by the synth-pop of the Rubberband Girl, this final studio album for more than a decade looked like Bush was in fine fettle, but in her (very) private life things were not good: she had split from her longtime partner/bassist Del Palmer Who she continued to work with; her mother a guitarist friend Alan Murphy had both died, she moved home and had married guitarist Dan McIntosh. The sadder aspects of all this are referred to on the swelling piano ballad Moments of Pleasure (orchestrated in grand fashion by Michael Kamen).
Again there is large cast (Eric Clapton, Prince, Jeff Beck, Trio Bulgarka again, etc) and her palette broadens again with a shift to African rhythms on Eat the Music with a horn section.
Big Stripey Lie is gritty and anxious rock track with Nigel Kennedy's serrated violin and odd effects.
The excitable title track – where she avers in part to her higher register – refers to the British film of the same name about a young ballet dancer and captures the tense excitement of the story.
The album -- double vinyl in the box set reissue -- was much admired for its daring (and sold well in the US) but in retrospect Bush was less than convinced: too long she thought, poor sound from her new digital studio equipment.
In 2011 she would revisit some of the tracks and rework them for her album The Director's Cut.
But that was a long way in the future and after The Red Shoes she would not reappear on a new studio recording for another 12 years.
In a new century in fact.
And in the interim Bjork -- whose solo debut album was released five months before The Red Shoes -- appeared. It was as if the torch of art music in pop culture had been passed along.
These three remastered albums are in the vinyl box set reissue of Kate Bush currently available through Warner Music. All of her first seven remastered albums to this point – the first four considered here – are also available in a CD box set.
Steve M - Dec 1, 2018
I started with Hounds of Love, which came out when I was 17, and worked my backwards, then forwards through her career. People either get her, or they don't, but I rate Kate Bush as an artistic genius along the lines of Bowie and Peter Gabriel - her missteps are still more exciting than most others' hits.
I think the vinyl is beautiful, a big investment for me, but when these first two sets arrived, it was The Dreaming that I went to first. The remastering is stunning - playing it really loud the album's complexity and immersive nature is fully realised. Now I just need to save up for the third and fourth boxes.
I started with Hounds of Love, which came out when I was 17, and worked my backwards, then forwards through her career. People either get her, or they don't, but I rate Kate Bush as an artistic genius along the lines of Bowie and Peter Gabriel - her missteps are still more exciting than most others' hits. I think the vinyl is beautiful, a big investment for me, but when these first two sets arrived, it was The Dreaming that I went to first. The remastering is stunning - playing it really loud the album's complexity and immersive nature is fully realised. Now I just need to save up for the third and fourth boxes.
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The American Civil Liberties Union and Amnesty International, two of the highest-profile human rights organizations in the United States, are calling for President Obama to grant clemency to Edward Snowden. The "Pardon Snowden" campaign kicks off today with a petition to "let President Obama know that the American people stand with Snowden." It's seeking 60,000 signatures and is hosted by the ACLU, which has signed on as Snowden's legal adviser.
The ACLU says that Snowden, who leaked classified information about the NSA's global surveillance systems in 2013, is a "great American who deserves clemency for his patriotic acts." Snowden is living in exile in Russia, though he has raised issues about that country's Orwellian government systems as well.
"If tens of thousands of us join together to deliver our message as one, we have a real chance of bringing him home," the ACLU writes.
Amnesty International and the ACLU have also launched PardonSnowden.org, though the site is locked down for anyone without login information.
It's unlikely that President Obama will pardon Snowden. The current administration has continuously called for Snowden to be tried in the US and it has shown little leniency for other whistleblowers such as Chelsea Manning.
In a case of curious timing, the Snowden biopic, a dramatic reenactment of the NSA leak directed by Oliver Stone and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, hits theaters on September 16th.
Via: BBC
In this article: aclu, AmnestyInternational, clemency, culture, EdwardSnowden, nsa, obama, pardon, politics, PresidentObama, Snowden
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